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Of course she is. She's a border collie.

As a long time dog owner, this all seems all too plausible.

I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what...

What? I've pointed out previously that there are people who view various PbtA games, including AW, as gamey because of the move...

Eh, that depends. Tony Stark has inherited power and wealth, but it only mildly matters to the rest of the Avengers because power (in...

So what is I don't think that gets to be a unilateral choice there; it should be baked into either action or character generation, both...

Happy treason, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare day.

Yeah, that 1:1 correlation is way beyond where I'd go in that direction, too..

Oh I tend to agree, you need a personality/backstory which is compatible with the mechanical character, but the idea that a build has to...

I would say connections to/in the setting and goals and defined personality things (if not the BIFTs in 5e) would qualify--though the...

No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...

Burning books is generally what people on the wrong side of history do.

Totally get where that group is coming from. For some, rules-heavy means predictability and a shared understanding of the game's...

As I noted before, even a game with some pretty gamist chops--the Hero System--let's you try again. It just requires you to accumulate...