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While true, you almost need to pre-select for that, as some people are really into downtime activities, and some just want to get back...

I don't think we need to keep holding @Hussar 's feet to the fire on the phrasing. I reacted pretty negatively to the original framing...

This. Take combat. There are people for whom "detailed, lots of options, multiple things to do on a turn" is better. There are people...

I really think we should separate "better" and "faster". I certainly see them as different things, so why assume they're the same?

Lots and lots of writers and thinkers have valued the time where they were doing other stuff -- the gym is a good one here -- where your...

Though it still increases the attention you need to give to one player, at least to some degree.

For what it’s worth, it’s the reason I’ve never felt comfortable associating myself with anything in the OSR broadly speaking, as it...

Dude, no he isn't, this is his schtick

Though that can (and I know people are going to roll their eyes at this) by what application of "well" you're using. As an example, a...

There should be two separate questions: 1) Does game X do thing Y well? 2) Do I want to use game X? Why or why not? One should not...

I have several arachnophobic friends, and I would react VERY BADLY to that on their behalf, much as I would to people messing with their...

I'm dyslexic, but I can't say I'm going to find random new symbols easier to pick out than numbers I've been working with for decades...

There's got to be like four different things that put me off the system, but some people just love it.

"The Strange" wasn't bad conceptually at all, but then I always got the idea Cordell may have had more influence than Cook there. Of...

I'd have thought there was enough public bitching about it it'd still have become well known pretty fast, but then, I didn't hang out on...