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If you make someone's experience worse, that's harm. It doesn't need to leave them bleeding on the floor.

At which point, as I've largely done at this point you just--stop.

Honestly, the thought leader crap on LinkedIn is already so dopey, AI can't really degrade things too much in that space.

That's their problem (well, and the problem to some degree of the people they insist on it from). But it doesn't change that you can't...

I can see some arguments there's a certain degree of distance in parts of PF2e, though I don't think its as severe as the 4e version in...

And there's why sometimes all you can do is walk away.

While I get some of what you're talking about, IME there were only a very few 4e builds where you could just "click the buttons" without...

I could actually see it happening with a long city campaign in a fairly corrupt city.

Its not impossible to have a murder mystery that involves at least some reasonable player agency--but the more its set up to do that...

I've seen statements to this effect a few times now and I think they are worth highlighting. Part of why I liked narrative games when I...

Self-analysis--which is what Lanefan talked about--is not automatically "jargon-filled game theory". It still requires introspection...

Let's say you're correct in you assessing your own abilities and style here. What in the world makes you think this is at all common...

I prefer the original version, the science fiction book "Beastmaster" by Andre Norton, which is what they used as the source for the...

The Beastmaster for decades has been my go-to for horrible book to movie adaptation. The Beastmaster by Andre Norton, had the hero with...

That would require someone to come in and be soggy about the conversion of a pretty good pair (well, in the original) of SF adventure...