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Eh. I'm simply not going to get worked up in a game that's already focused on killing people in droves making it a little mechanically...

No. Or at least not 4e. And the fact that you hold systems you neither know well, nor play, to a different standard than the one you...

Oh, yeah, that one is particularly sad.

Those particular style of potatoes are also very rare to find at food joints in my experience. I can think of one local restaurant that...

There's definitely a cognitive bias a lot of folks fall into where they study something really in-depth and then mistakenly think their...

Yeah. The disturbing thing is always people who aren't scammers, but genuinely have convinced themselves some bit of woo is true, and...

Though it is a specialized one rather than a generalized one.

I wouldn't claim its invalid; but if there are arguments why the new method of doing something is simpler, serves more people, or is...

And then if you don't change enough, people complain its not really a new game.

You can do that to some degree with any decent word processor, as long as you know how to do columns and such things as boxes. Fillable...

Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, while imperfect (I'm running a campaign of it now), is one of their biggest critical successes in...

Well, they at least should be able to explain why on some level beyond "I'm used to it the other way". I can explain the problems I see...

Base coat is done

And you have to look at your priorities too; Advantage/Disadvantage is clearly a strong simplifier for many people, but its one of the...

I think if it just happened to be a bunch of ogres on the way (not controlled by a boss, just something I had on the map from levels ago...