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Well if you don't like metacurrency, you don't, but I do have to point out its nothing much but a roundabout way to reward the player in...

But if the rules don't matter when you don't want them to, then why place any value on what's in the book versus what isn't? We can...

I have to ask: is there a driving need to always follow the cultural zeitgeist? And by this I mean that I think SJG is doing the right...

Well, part of that was because 3e was the edition that often fished people back in who had long since drifted away, and what brought...

Though I'll note people are really, really bad at acting like qualifier words aren't in a statement. If my experience has taught me...

Well, I'd argue that's because they've too frequently hit too many people who act like the default when talking to them is the contrary...

This is explicitly disallowed:

That's more a benefit of discrete character build components. Point assignment happens to be the way that's managed in a lot of...

While I don't doubt that, the first part would (from where I sit) largely destroy any point with bothering with the game in the first place.

I didn't see any major practical impact from later books (at least in a negative way) at least until Essentials came by. You either...

I try to use "IME" for similar reasons, but can't say I'm always consistent about it.

It would be helpful if people didn't regularly blur the two together in how they argue things. There's also the problem of what I call...

Most likely (though these can be indistinguishable from one another) just overcautious.

It's not a source for professional purposes, but for personal use it's good enough. And if you need more, the articles are usually very...

And, over time, it got better*. AI will probably get better, too. But it's not there yet. * Although the best way to cite Wikipedia is...