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There's kind of a third case; games where the GM is running for multiple PCs but they're mostly just timesharing; they aren't members of...

The biggest problem can be some such players are really waiting for the hook. If they have to go look for it, they'll coast to a stop.

It can be really hard to get some adjacent ones to work that way, either; if you start digging into most pulp adventure games, the...

This sort of dismissiveness is exactly the sort of thing that picks fights.

I don't play as much as I used to, but I've been gaming for a half century and was much more so when younger (and with a wider range of...

Champions is a weird case. Hero has not been particularly visible for some time now (I'm not sure when the last physical book(s) were...

For sure. Apathetic to play, or "just showing up to roll dice and be there" players are a very large contingent, and also work much...

Just to be consistent here, its not just bad faith that can be a problem, but people who play without paying attention to the big...

That's what I meant about "people's taste in it." I ran and played in games utilizing RuneQuest and the Hero System as fantasy systems...

Its odd, but even back in my most simulationist period (which is decades in the past now), I understood and could engage with the...

Yeah, I like a certain degree of technical manual to my fantasy.

High convention genres would probably all be like that for you, if I had to guess.

I'd argue that's applying some concepts of verisimilitude to genres and settings where they don't work, at least as normally applied. I...

I’ve just chalked his posts down as coming from an alternate reality, since pretty much everything shared is like totally opposite or...

So, seems loaded to me, because I expect most of us don't experience much, or any, player ranting. We have pretty low key interactions...