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I joined a gaming group and was a member for 3-4 years. But there was one guy who never warmed up to me. He was never overtly rude to...

Nothing like kind of deciding you are done freelancing only to finally get that project offer you have wanted.

Depends how you count it. I personally think I'd call the things that happened to the Central American civilizations in that category.

Yeah, partly due to not having a null result, where nothing happens, and partly due to even Level 1 characters being able to have potent...

Not like design trends don't have precedents usually, especially at individual tables.

If true, I wonder how much of that is the reach of 5e Advantage/Disadvantage.

To be clear, what I meant by anti-verisimilitudousness are stuff like how GMs should allow plans of action that are 'cool' by minimizing...

I'm not sure about the second part, but at least as a priority, I think the first is pretty true--because the kind of fiction they're...

I updated both laptops yesterday, and so far mine seems okay, but if its a timebomb problem, it might well.

In America, IME, there are three types of vacation time- 1. "Gig economy" / part time jobs. What is vacation time? 2. Wage slave /...

A little bit of that, and a lot of bits of compulsive overworkers we sometimes had to chase out of the office so they would sleep...

Not like there haven't been studies proving that, but apparently nobody believes them.

Yeah, I have to remind her of that.

She's similar in both ways, though she only works from home two days a week.

My wife is notorious for me having to poke her to get her to use some of her vacation days. We take a couple weeks off a year (once...