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That's never an optimization problem. There are so many ways to go, that if a player is picking up things to step on someone else's...

They really don't matter much at all. Most games never get to 10th level, so the vast majority of players never see fighters reach 3 or...

Getting an enemy to surrender or run away should IMO count as defeating them for purposes of xp.

Absolutely. Morale is a thing (or should be), and IMO enhances the verisimilitude of the experience.

Wrong director. This needs a bigshot like Ridley Scott or Chris Nolan or Denis Villeneuve. From watching clips of his work, I can tell...

If you mean, it is obvious that the themes will resonate with the audience, now, then yeah.

Oh, and... Big tech company doing Neuromancer. Not ironic at all. No siree.

This is because of the #1 reason players refuse to surrender: they don't want their PCs captured. It's considered a "violation of their...

I think one issue, with dnd5e at least, is that ranged attacks can't (RAW) knock foes unconscious. It's always lethal. It needs to be a...

This quote should be bronzed and placed upon the altar of role playing games. We are not our characters.

I don't know why you'd want to play a game about it at that point, better just to do collaborative storytelling outright. Plus the...

My complaints are many. :p The biggest problem though is that play often isn't about using the rules to get a desired outcome, or...

Okay but what choices are missing from games like the Elden Ring or Baldur's Gate or Civilization series? What don't those games allow...

To be honest, AI players are my dream. No scheduling issues, no need to vet.

For a long time now folks have derided videogames as not being able to GM an RPG the way a human can. As in adapt to choices of a player...