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Next we can say nothing is free to play because everything has opportunity costs...language can't always be perfect, but "pay" and...

Yea. I guess free to play pc games are paying you to play them. And my friends once provided snacks to me when I ran a game for them...

I can't really speak to what you have or have not seen. I have no idea how you "read" that. I do count things such as Paying Attention...

I guess I don't really understand the perameters of "skilled play." I don't understand how you can set up a puzzle for the players (in...

It might be useful to have a little snap shot of The Time Before Time: There were three basic Heroes that were popular in the 70s and...

We must be time travelers then as we’ve played D&D in almost exactly that style since at least 1984. The group of older kids I played...

Is the fact that you can ignore, change, alter and add to the 'game rules' not enough? You won't find many other games with that...

Which is the biggest unreality of all. The real world doesn’t fit into nice neat narratives where things happen for a reason. Barry goes...

Absolutely. It's always been my favorite genre and the movie resparked my interest. So tired of endless, mindless slaughter.

Folks probably won't understand my perspective. Since I'm in the middle of working through it I'm not sure I fully understand it yet...

Having just rewatched the Dark Knight, I think it’s implied streets were empty because traffic had been blocked to allow for the...

Imo there is a conceptual difference. If I run games at a con and they give me a comped badge, I wouldn't consider it to be paid GMing...

Granting a gift is not paying. Especially when it’s a gift that costs one nothing.

I think your analysis is based on a transactional view of how religion works. I'm not going to mention specifics but want to note that...

The way to challenge the player as opposed to challenging the character with traps is to make the detection and disarming of the trap a...