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Forum posting? :) Ultimately I don't care if people only want to play one game and not try any others. But I will push back on people...

You absolutely SHOULD do any or all of these things. But, why are you claiming that it's an "instead" and not "and". It's not like...

And I truly believe the reverse is equally true. Forever players really, really need to step behind the screen at least once to see how...

Playing different systems illustrates why various systems do the things that they do. I mentioned above about the difference between a...

I just recently read a book where the author spent a week riding along with a long-haul trucker in the US, and I get the feeling the...

Yes you would. You would have an experience of handling a different sort of vehicle that may improve your ability to respond to other...

I agree that the second quote is not objectionable. But I see things like the first quote a lot more. Here's an example in this very thread:

How? There are GM-less TTRPGs. There are TTRPGs with no randomness at all. There are TTRPGs with no classes or races. There are TTRPGs...

Exactly right, which is why if I have a dispute with a player over whether or not a given circumstance in the game makes sense in the...

I really like rolemaster. The Arms Law stuff is not that big a problem if you photocopy (or these days simply print) the tables the...

My answer is that it doesn't matter even slightly if it's right. It matters if it feels right, or feels like it might be right. It...

Having to have a book with you is not an inhuman level of required system mastery.

Real conversation I had last weekend with one of my players: Guy: "You know, you could use ChatGPT to make those maps and encounter...

Except they were all "damage is this, so this is damage." You did not actually make an argument that damage represented a thing in...

Agreed. 'Hit points measure how much damage you can take, and damage represents how many hit points you lose'.