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It's not that it doesn't count for anything, it's that there are necessarily, guaranteed, always diminishing returns. The amount of...

And yet, Bruce Lee traveled for years studying other styles and incorporating elements from a broad selection of martial arts...

But, if that were true, and there was nothing unique about what others had learned from other games, then why don't you understand and...

It depends, do you think you can pull off a beret?

Even if you just keep it in journals you leave in your nightstand drawer, keep doing it. It'll make you a better writer and more...

embrace it and become the poet that folks will warn others about for any reason......

I've started writing poetry and I'm not sure if I should be embracing it or fighting it

The fact that you have no idea how any of these things work is precisely the problem. I have neither the time, patience or energy to...

No offense, but that is kind of the response I expected from you. You asked for specific examples, supposedly out of an open-mindedness...

Here are a few examples of how running other games helped me improve my DMing: 1. Early on in my gaming career, I fell in love with...

I think I said earlier that there is a diminishing returns angle to this. If DM 1 has run 100 sessions of D&D and DM 2 has run 10...

Here's an example, albeit from the Edition That Cannot Be Named: in 4e (oh no I did it) skill challenges are basically a not very good...

Well just to stick to one example, with call of cthulhu, a couple things like "There are Obvious Clues and Obscured Clues. Make sure...

So just to be clear, you do get ideas for D&D from non-D&D sources? It's only non-D&D sources that are games that offer no possible benefit?

Wait, you're suggesting they might be hypocrites? At least, in this one very narrow subject. You disgust me sir. The very idea.