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Yes, we had fun overall, it is the reason why we are still playing, but I can recognise that mistakes were indeed made by me, where I...

Again, there's a distinction between "despite" and "because of".

What, you’ve never enjoyed a bad movie? I enjoyed the group and the games, but I was a teenager. I no longer have interest in games...

People often times look back in disdain or regret because perhaps in 30-40 years they have learned how do GM better, that mistakes were...

Its entirely possible to view enjoyable gaming despite problem processes and not view it as because of them. There were a lot of things...

That is true, but there are number of us who look back on that period with more than a little disdain.

While I do disagree with you on a number of things, this is one that I'm not actually too concerned about. I mean, they've been trying...

I think it matters when you do that. Its not a railroad if, at the start of the campaign the GM says "You need to all design characters...

But if only some characters have to use it for survivability, as far as I'm concerned that's a design flaw. When they're entangled...

For a more Watsonian explanation, its also extremely questionable that the tolerance for superheroic vigilantism would continue if they...

Well, for some people some of those things are so intimately connected in their view that they aren't really separate in the sense...

I agree that they like playing smart. I disagree that this then means there will be one and only one dramatically more common response...

Yes. As many other people have made plain. If you don't want to see (or can't see) a difference... that's fine. But other people do.

Trad hasn't cracked the code because it's impossible. You can't simultaneously experience a fantasy novel AND simultaneously have full...

You could set it up so, as the saying goes, "all roads lead to Rome" not in the sense where everything the PCs do will continue the plot...