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Often enough I don't much care about the exceptions. Yeah that was supposed to read "shouldn't".. Their choice. Any general...

Its as realistic as is possible for many settings. Its not like realism can't be selective. You don't see the kind of questions about...

And that's with the bigger players. With the small ones its often, at best, a self-supporting hobby.

When I look around, I see advice that typical "small business" is looking for a profit margin of 10% to 20%. Steve Jackson Games - in...

And it was toxic back then, too. If its a game among friends, then the one running it should feel a need to be in charge every inch of...

And that's why PbtA and similar games have lists of GM agendas, principles, and moves--so they either have a way to unlearn that...

Even in the best conditions--flat meadows with short grass, hard-baked arid turf--there can be things that aren't obvious, and as you...

If by "rules lawyering" you mean "expecting the rules to be used as written unless the GM has formally changed them" then, yes, I do...

Two threads in as many days where a guy who blocked me for I-have-no-clue-what-reason is being an trollish annoyance. It's nice when...

I think if the person is taking their time in an ideal environment maybe you'd be right but this is often in the heat of combat and a...

Because the players know better than to make the game silly. If they can't do that, then play a game where the DM can force compliance...

The problem is when you have people that have been taught that player has the right to do that.

That's your choice. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen and if its something that has real heft it won't turn into a discussion (and in some...

Yeah, as I've noted at least part of the die roll is representing events and situations that are both out of the characters control and...

I am only a prophet by way of everyone else - I spew forth some amount of stuff, and some tiny faction of might turn out to be true, at...