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I went around on this some many pages ago when pemerton first linked it. When you have to stop and caveat your ensuing paragraph (from...

I Don't Do Steam. That said, everything on my wishlist is on sale on GOG, but I've firmly told myself a sale has to be pretty steep...

I've commented before that complicating their lives when avoidable is something a lot of people consider not-fun.

I don't entirely disagree, but class systems are not notorious for making it easy to branch out.

Something not too far from that was part of the plot of the most recent season of For All Mankind.

Yup. There's a whole other can of worms you open when taking prisoners, and its one that's easy for a GM to mishandle.

In my experience, it's more that allowing enemies to retreat invariably leads to them alerting the entire dungeon/castle/whatever and...

Some of its that, but even in games that don't really work that way its often more "These guys will just come back with friends/join up...

I suppose you have a point there. Far be it for me to badwrongfun somebody else. It's an approach to TTRPGs that is, frankly alien to...

Yeah absolutely. This idea that optimized PCs and good roleplaying are somehow in opposition to each other is, frankly, not only...

I know you're not disagreeing, but I've definitely seen the other though; when we started playing D&D 4e, my wife wanted to build an...

This is one of those things that can land on the rocks of different expectations in both directions. On one hand the "if your character...

Eh. There may be varying levels of self-awareness and of subjective aesthetic preferences involved. They may have built what they...

This is a nonsensical statement. "Thrive" is relative. Non-optimized PCs benefit more and "thrive" more in a game that is "made easy for...

Though I'll note there are kind of hardcore gamists groups where its not only accepted, its expected (of course usually in those the...