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I kind of feel that setting out to do “hard” SF is like handing everyone in the audience a baseball bat and asking them to hit you with it.

Yes, but they tend to speak of it in a general sense - "This movie has the best science ever!" Sure, except for the climate science...

These are clues perhaps, but there is a wide range of abilities here. Michael Crichton is a good acid test. He uses science and...

Why is that not authoring? You consciously chose to think of a bar.

And I don't agree with that. A lot of writing attempts you find out by doing them if you have the skill for it. And it may not be...

For me this approaches the line, but I don't think it crosses it. I'd prefer for the GM to have many of these details fixed. For...

Fair enough. I have explained more than once in this eternal thread that I don't desire player collaboration in worldbuilding in games...

Wizards of the Coast is producing another Stranger Things product. Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club is a new boxed product...

Who vetoes player actions made within the confines of their PCs in an active game?

Remember I'm arguing against "must accept tieflings"; I'm not in the absolute power debate. Must I accept tieflings in Ryu & Ronin?

So I don’t think the GM should have just told you what your character’s grievance was, though a potential suggestion shouldnt be a...

I believe the example that was given was that the characters wanted to get out of a dungeon. The GM narrated that there were runes on a...

I'd need more specifics to be sure. If they had no relationship to the PCs, then I wouldn't care for it. If it was the tradition in the...

Yeah, this is true as @pemerton presented them. In that case the PC 'expressed a hope that they were a map', and the player then rolled...

You're either missing my point or making what seems like a pretty pointless semantic argument. "Need" in this sense is meaning you...