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I used to eat the equivalent of the low calorie plate regularly at some local restaurants; always went over well. Wouldn't mind finding...

I don't know, it seems like there's a point where if your view is "The amount you need to charge for RPG material to be able to make it...

I'll just note "Its fine if you stop before you use a third of the advancement range its avowedly designed for" isn't, perhaps, the...

Sure, I somewhat agree with that, although the knight being in love with the king could easily be the result of a rule. But I still...

I would tend to agree with you, despite my table playing traditional D&D with indie techniques and ideas thrown in here and there and...

I do think sandbox generally is more tolerant of low stakes. But I also think people are underestimating how powerful emergent stakes...

I mean, if the player's decision-making is driven by "this name sounds cool" or something equally trivial, that's not bad, but it is a...

I've forged many friendships with strangers online over gaming. Its not that hard of a thing to do.

This only works (at best, since I think an awful lot of players have what some others would call "min-maxer" tendencies), when you can't...

Because when "what the DM has written in his notebook can overrule anything else happening at the table", they have de facto unlimited...

Not different levels of impossible. Different kinds of impossible.

He's largely superhuman in a way that almost all "highly trained" supers are if they have a focus at all, though. When was the last...

I just think there's a difference between "triggered by player interaction" and "based around player interaction". The motivation seems...

Do you feel that's the same as the world only being determined because the players are playing? I mean that one seems a bit of an...

Rich as hell by the standard of the price lists they provide. I'm not going to try and guess what every GM in the world changes those...