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I think you have a distinction that isn't held up in the wild. People who really want to game will put up with a lot of annoyance for...

My wife is officially retired now, which makes two of us. Great times ahead with our games and the pooch, who doesn't understand yet...

As I've noted before, while there's some variance here even in D&D, there's been traditionally some pretty active hostility among some...

The only thing that will kill this is if you have players who don't want to engage with the situation at all, and that's a problem in...

Meh. I retract the "most" part. I shouldn't have said "most" are primarily ego stroking and self-soothing. It's probably closer to 15%.

I think the problem is the latter is not actually true for a lot of people for various reasons. I've seen a number of people who flat...

Certainly. I'm just noting you can easily have one or more examples in a group of people who are working at cross-purposes because, in...

Depends on whether its the tactical element or other parts that have you burned out.

I'm rather bothered by the capped/cancel out combo (that's one of the things I dislike about Advantage/Disadvantage) but it may be that...

Yeah, some people in the "no gaming is better than bad gaming" can't understand people who want to game enough they'll deal with a lot...

Finding enough people interested im roleplaying at all and with enough overlapping free time can be very very hard.

SotDL Banes/Boons add or subtract a D6 from the D20 roll involved; they don't stack, exactly, but they can cancel each other, and if you...

I don't remember how you feel about Savage Worlds, but it comes to mind. Do you want fantasy or something else?

I ran an XCOM campaign with Savage Worlds some years ago. The base management was admittedly an essentially added-on subsystem, and to...

Yeah, but thread drift is one of those things that tends to have kind of broad impact in what occurs on fora. Ironically in a way that...