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Do we mean a golden age for the hobby or for the industry? Million dollar kickstarters reflect the latter but maybe not the former...

Which ones have you played?

English as it's meant to be spoken.

You mean you wish you didn't have an accent, like we don't have accents? But you have to struggle through with a thick American accent...

If the GM is guaranteed to occasionally act in bad faith, should we not prepare for that inevitability, rather than shrugging and...

I don't think that all people sometimes act in bad faith.

I wish there were any current events that showed the problems with giving one person ultimate power but I'm struggling to think of any...

You're disagreeing with something I didn't say. GP = XP doesn't make the game about getting gold. It (without a corresponding weight of...

I agree that these things are vesitigial now, and have been vestigial for a long time (certainly back to 4e, and probably 3e to a large...

Existing things redefined literally: Dust of Disappearance ('Oh, it's gone') Turn Undead ('Brains...') Cloudkill ('Take that, you dirty...

Some spells: Fold Person (2nd) Find the Bath (6th) Fish (9th)

John Harper had a good diagram to illustrate this "jigsaw pieces" approach: The Mighty Atom

I understand all of this. I was trying to characterise what strict TR looks like in response to someone who broadly denied it existed.

Yes. It doesn't have to. The GM in my example has been my regular GM for a long time and isn't normally like that (hence why I remember...

This came up a few times in discussions of 4e: what's the DC for a Diplomacy check to allow another character to spend a healing surge...