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Car accidents are the leading cause of "preventable" (whatever that means) deaths for ages 5-22. If that doesn't count as the PC's...

So, Matt Colville released a video about community building recently. I like Matt, he's a smart guy and I almost always learn something...

A "+4 when it doesn't matter" modifier might as well not exist. In my admittedly limited experience, it's far more common to be eating...

Maybe I was misinformed. I was using "roleplaying" to mean "making decisions as if you were your character, instead of as yourself."...

I know the books say 12 is what most people realistically have, but that always struck me as a bit low. Even after the +4 for mundane...

I didn't explain it well, but and important part of my example was the way that 5E movement costs either nothing, or an entire turn...

I mean, it does a little, right? Imagine a D&D party is fighting an Ogre, and the Swordmaster fighter decides to switch to a ranged...

Hold up, that seems like a substitution. The engine that makes Diplomacy work is a combination of negotiation and defection; you offer...

All I can say for certain is that the only thing you are missing out on by not playing Diplomacy is pain

Maybe? I cant say for certain as its a preferential thing person to person. Thats what is interesting with Diplomacy, there is no...

Power Ups 10: Skill Trees has a system where about 26 ‘trunk’ skills encompass the scope of all the 200+ skills in the core book with a...

Do you think I'm missing out on something by not roleplaying in my board games? Maybe it does vary, and I play mostly technical games...

"Lie and betray" is an interesting definition of role-playing.

If roleplaying is making decisions as if you were a different character, then I don't rp in board games basically at all. To me...

To be fair, talking in funny voices does not have any impact on game resolution in D&D either.