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All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

And I dislike generative AI. It harms people and it's inherently unethical. I am comfortable calling unethical things names. The term...

Heaven forbid we have any power fantasy in our games where we pretend to be fierce warriors and arcane conjurors

You are wrong.

Thank you for making my point back to me like it would be news to me. Again, could. Not will. No, I think it is what was said.

I IRL could choose anything. I could choose to put my computer in the oven and eat my MERP books. But I won't. There is a difference...

The question is not 'could choose'. The question is 'will choose'.

I've been fine with them ever since I was introduced to them in the Ghostbusters roleplaying game. For me... there is a distinct split...

I can't tell you how glad I am that it's not in the D&D forum. There are so, so many thread topics that can apply to far more games than...

When you say 'they' and 'them' here I don't know whether you mean the character or the player. The character does not exist and so...

But we DO think this. (At least, I do.) I might arrive at a decision I didn't expect when play started over a particular scenario...

To my mind there is also a question of how reasonable it is to come to a game with a predefined model of everything the character will...

But it can’t be out-of-character if we’re using play to determine who the character is.

I don't quite agree. The thing is - is the PrC just for optimizing your character beyond reasonable limits? Meh. Don't stretch yourself...

No one said they are. No one (but you, misquoting) said that no one would ever choose such things. But no one would have chosen them...