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Like Alzrius said, we've had this before, it was just odd for it to suddenly recur. I suspect a software update.

Well, yeah. Jeffro's arguing that OD&D and AD&D were intended to be played as a more wargame-style campaign similar to a Braunstein...

I have mixed feelings about it myself; the other games I know of which treat mooks as a collective opponent still usually treat them as...

The problem with this is it really only worked if you were playing the game for really long or really frequent periods. I've mentioned...

Like I said, that works pretty well with most of the ground its trying to cover, because most movie antagonists are only confronted...

I've seen this sort of thing presented before by individuals in the OSR of an older stripe; its hard for me to take it serious when it...

Yeah, Johnson's theses are interesting but ill-supported. Trying to argue that Boot Hill shows how OD&D and AD&D were actually meant to...

It can happen both ways, but a single player is, in practice, usually more easy to dispose of than the GM. The usual times its a...

Oh, absolutely. Someone can come to a different conclusion in good faith. At this point that's just not likely to change my mind...

Of course not. The point of example of the extreme (if no consistency then no agency) is to increase the contrast of a phenomenom so...

I don't apply it to specific individuals. I just don't not apply it to specific individuals if you understand the difference. And I...

I listened to the Ben and Jon interview last night, and it seems like it really only touches on any of this tangentially, insofar as Ben...

Sure. But at the end of the day, there's a flip side of that as I've gotten to see on occasion; I've seen GMs who were sure what they...

Personal over the decades and a lot of third-party reports. It took me a long time to strongly arrive at the conclusion, including...

When this came up in The Ethics of Two Way Ignore thread in Meta a few years ago, I said: I'm basically in the same place now. I...