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I always get chuckle when dinning out with my brother on the table, he is the one given the check. Every time. n_n

That's an issue with most people not wanting to really engage with the consequences of failure, and is just as true whatever those...

Indeed. The flaw inherent in the "survival value is all-important" argument is that it has forgotten that survival is, always, merely a...

To me, this still seems to involve a bit of a non-sequitur - because a physical altercation can involve meaningful stakes other than...

Point is, I think it requires a certain self-centered view of what you're playing for for character survival to be the main one. its...

Only because in most media they're not going to let a real failure happen. That doesn't have anything to do with what the actual stakes...

Its only not exciting if you don't care about the other consequences of failure. You know, the place you're protecting getting...

I haven't played a Thaumaturge yet, but I've seen them in play at lower levels. I play a rogue, and I have a lot of options in combat...

As I've noted before, this would define the vast majority of superhero campaigns as having no significant stakes. Yeah, no.

I think EN World not being the home base of D&D (not being run by the devs of the game or the company that publishes it) has made a lot...

So, just to note: Copyright applies to specific expressions, not to "ideas". Moreover, copyright does not apply to systems, processes...

To quote half a dozen professors at two different institutions I have attended: "One source is plagiarism. Three or more is research."...

there’s also Mary Robinette Kowal. Her Lady Astronaut of Mars series begins with a large-ish asteroid crashing into the Atlantic and...

I love a lot of Heinlein, and he had some great and some merely thought-provoking ideas. But he definitely had some unexamined and...

It seems like one or the other would have been better, but the show is still surprisingly good, all things considered.