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I think someone really new to GMing--especially someone without much experience as a player, or without much variance in that...

@Hussar And i will politely disagree. I think that skills that make good player or DM are system agnostic and lot of them are basic...

TTRPGs are probably only hobby in which people constantly talk about needing to branch out and try other games and it makes no sense at...

Sure, sure. I've just seen far too many people whose stance is "I've never played anything but D&D, D&D is the best and only game for...

I think there is perhaps a difference between unwilling to cook any dish not from one's native cuisine and, I dunno, preferring to cook...

"I'm just a D&D guy is all, the system works very well for me so why change it? I definitely didn't choose it because of the brand name...

In my own case, the game is working for me and for the players at my table, and I don't persistently have more energy than it takes to...

Because, "People should play other games in order to increase the pool of players I personally have to draw on," has zero chance of...

On the one hand, I'd expect people who enjoyed one trick-taking game to enjoy several. On the other hand, bridge specifically has some...

"More" players than GMs? Of course, if tables average 5 players you need a 1 to 5 ratio. "Far more"? You have no proof other than your...

It might be rude, if that's the expectation that's set. On the other hand, one of the reasons I can run any game I want, and one of the...

Absolutely not, I don't agree with what you say here at all. Based on what? You said before that it was well designed, now you're...

I just want to elaborate on this a little bit. The only time characters in fiction do things that "don't make sense" is (i) if the...

I just had a rec.games.frp.advocacy flashback!

There's "hard" that's enjoyable and worth the effort, and there's "hard" that isn't. I'm no good at all at chess, and I don't enjoy...