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I personally think there's a lot of rose tint in many remembrances of the other seasons of Daredevil. They had some episodes to slog...

He does seem like a worst-case scenario in many ways, yes. Setting out to optimize hard as GM, then complaining when your players do, is...

Especially when "play pretend" does the job just as well and is completely open to all modes of play and all genders.

I did a couple sample encounters with my wife, just to test before I ran on the podcast. She really enjoyed the system. Even at 1st...

I still pop in, but I am not starting threads (or commenting much). I ran a one-shot of Daggerheart for another group of friends -...

True, but he needs to make it clear that he's houseruling that upfront; players aren't going to just assume it.

Its a great bundle. Unfortunately I already have pretty much everything I'd want out of it.

Yeah. Talking about your own experiences/psychology is almost certainly fine, though probably not generalizable (and you should keep...

I finally had to resort to the Ignore button to prevent myself from incurring the Wrath of Red Text, so I'm not going to directly...

My take--and this is just my take, I'm not speaking for anyone else, here--is that having people who are optimized to different extents...

Well, its based on the fact that even people who aren't oriented toward optimization want to feel like they're contributing. If some...

In my experience some people are jerks, but most people want to follow the social rules. An actively bad game is one in which you are...

Once again your experience is functionally the opposite of just about everyone else's--and you are conflating "spotlight hog" with...

The PF2e games I've played in says you're wrong. And this is, at best, a gross overgeneralization. There are plenty of optimizers who...

I've left tables when everyone else was clearly enjoying the play but it was driving me kinda nuts (in a bad way). I have persistently...