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I have a friend who's an engineer who detests that word similarly, at least in his professional context.

The fizzles in my experience haven't had the same root cause/s as those in yours, but I can see this causing some--though I'll point out...

I think there's a difference between "I didn't like it enough to keep reading" and "the ending is horrible." I think a bad ending can...

I'm also unconvinced that being able to tell the players what the campaign is about (as a narrative) before play is a great good thing...

I want to like what you are saying, but ive found that simple campaign tag line that outlines the whole campaign is absolutely zero...

There's a lot to say about Catholicism, but the church knows how to design the heck out of sacred spaces.

While I do like the archetypes presented here, I am also immediately reminded of this XKCD comic:

TIL that Mothra is a literary adaptation.

If you tend to picky, pedantry is just the more intellectual version of that. And it can't help but get self-referential in discussion...

From the inside. From the outside it may sometimes be hard to separate. But actual trolling has a different deliberate intent.

There seems to be some disconnect between apathy as like a starting position and a desire for wish fulfillment.

Some part of it might be that I've disliked every published long adventure I've played in, to various degrees, and I literally cannot...

Actually, I'd argue in full-blown token play, you aren't even playing yourself; you're probably making utilitarian decisions different...

That's just people who are lamenting that they can't argue about defining "edition" now that WotC finally admitted 5.5e actually is one.

I actually respect a good bout of pedantry. Details matter, and if we're going to spend weeks in a thread we might as well get detailed...