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And it wasn't like sponsoring scientists wasn't kind of a thing in the 1800's in some cases. The only difference really is that modern...

We used to say we played RuneQuest e - 2.71828. It was a group with a lot of mathematicians.

Its not insulting per se. It might get so if he was insistent that other people weren't running a campaign every time they talked about...

This is a definition issue again. You see constraints on player choice as railroading - even if they are transparent, known and fully...

Don't unwatch a thread often, but time to do so there, I think.

Honestly, you can argue always was there.

Yup, my instinct not to let myself slide into another MoS adjacent discussion was sound.

Wait, was his name Otis? That's awesome.

Or there may be some other transformative / disruptive force, such as a higher performance / better formatted wiki + (ouch) AI. I just...

Oh, that explains a lot. Yeah, with that low a probability of success per die, you're going to need a very large number of dice before...

But that's an artifact of that system that deciding one character shouldn't win quite as often as 90%. Its not hard to set the...

Its not unknown to have a person who views humanity as a whole as making more amoral decisions than they, themselves do. In particular...

And I expect that same courtesy from everyone at the table. GM included. Nobody has the right to absolute perfection of their vision...

I think there's some foggy space with people who get into things like Adventure Paths without understanding most of them, to be used in...

My objections aren't to do with ruffled feathers; they're to do with semantic value. With preserving useful labels so that effective...