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I get the impression that organ meat largely fell out of favour because it was seen as something poor people would eat. As a kid I...

People that do GM need to stop talking about how hard it is and talk about how fun it is.

This is the thing I am pushing back against -- specifically how some people weaponize that feeling for clicks, backers and sales of...

I would actually be really interested in knowing why organ meat became "gross" in American food culture. I grew up without a lot of...

Rereading Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout, and apparently I didn't actually learn the two previous times that Kidneys and Waffles used to be a...

This. I mean, it was a rant. Of course measured discussion will reveal naunce and differing opinions. Which is fine. Awesome even...

Both of these things are true. DMing takes effort, and doesn’t give immediate positive results for that effort. Running a game...

Not in the context of the thread, and of the rant. But, hey, who doesn't love a good semantics argument. I'm all ears! (or is it eyes...

It is usually used to emphasize that we should debate the matter civilly, especially when history shows that discussions about...

I don’t actually disagree with most of what you say - including here. Players should be given the space to make mistakes. I also don’t...

When I look at the reaction to ads or products framing GMing as “hard,” I see something deeper than a disagreement about difficulty. The...

What a shock: TheSword disagrees with Reynard. Hooda guessed? 😉 I don't object to GMing advice books (although I do object to Justin...

Do players expect that, or are DMs psyching themselves out worrying that's what players expect?

I am not a fan of 2024, but it is literally the first DMG to provide short adventures you can plug in anywhere.

That is a good point. And EN World definitely has an older lean, as well as people that have been playing for a long time. It is...