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I don't believe I've made any demands for proof -- I have simply stated that there is no proof and that, lacking it, I reject these...

Essentially, I agree that we don't and can't know, which is why I push back against people who claim that their personal experience is...

I have yet to see any evidence, beyond some personal anecdotes, that there is a "big difference" in people's ability to recognise or...

The community is also built off of decades of normal people being the DM and providing fair and fun play. Ultimately what we are...

Yet again I just can't get my head around the games and groups some people have experienced. At 14 years of age, in the 80s, my players...

I don't have any comments about how much you saw it. I dispute that hobby-wide it was common in the past but not now. There are people...

Yeah, this idea that in the dark old days GMs tended to be bad and understanding how to run a good game is some kind of new discovery...

I feel there was more of the "before their time" DMs than people think. I only recall one bad then. But the "killer" DMs certainly...

I only became interested in the old 2e settings and had a proper look at them within the last decade. There was zero nostalgia for me...

Double post.

You never saw Spartacus, 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, Roots, or Amistad? We have a tendency to turn even the most terrible...

Ars Magica Definitive Edition is the only one I care about, can't wait for my pledge to arrive someday, finally charged me on backer kit...

"knee jerk" isn't writing this post after playing and writing for the rule set for well over a year "lack of familiarity with other...

Yep. The swinginess that matters in play isn't what you get from rolling a single die or group of dice in isolation -- it's about the...

The swingy-ness of the d20 is significantly reduced by the way most system add bonuses to various rolls. The basic roll is no swingier...