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I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.

It thankfully doesn't happen that frequently, but enough times to have spoiled my mood to the point that I'm always wary of such players...

Minor point of order - players OR referee, not players AND referee. If either doesn't want the campaign to continue past the TPK, that...

In the case of TRPGs--and relevant to what @Bae'zel said just upthread--what I tell the people at the tables I'm GMing at is that they...

I really don't think that's a behavior fundamentally related to playful competition. I met up with the same 3 friends to play 18xx games...

My experiences are probably atypical, because at this point the only board games my friend group plays are co-op, but when people get...

That may be true of D&D, and many other traditional RPGs. But, there are RPGs that have an explicit end point. Scum and Villany, for...

Yeah, I was thinking there were probably aspects more relevant to video games, but I don't play video games. Better to be thought...

Yeah absolutely. This idea that optimized PCs and good roleplaying are somehow in opposition to each other is, frankly, not only...

I'm not disagreeing, here, but I've come to the conclusion that often when people say something on the lines of "the players have...

I mean, I accept that may be how you choose to use the word, but if you interpret other people as meaning that, you're just...

That's far narrower than a lot of people using the term mean by it.

Eh. There may be varying levels of self-awareness and of subjective aesthetic preferences involved. They may have built what they...

This is a nonsensical statement. "Thrive" is relative. Non-optimized PCs benefit more and "thrive" more in a game that is "made easy for...

Indeed. All "I'm not optimized" means in terms of RP is "...and I'm not very good at my job" which is more of a character beat than "...