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"It's what my character would do" is, in fact, entirely sufficient justification for any reasonably in-character action you assign to...

That's largely because the majority of jobs the majority of humans do (at least in the modern world) have no intrinsic fulfillment for...

Most of my action declarations are because that's what the character would do. Like, that's playing a role, right? But then, most of...

I'm just saying the fact something does not feel rewarding to you says nothing about it not being rewarding to a character. The former...

Oh, there's elements of it. But, to be self-insert, the character still has to be recognizable as the author.

So by that light is not Aragorn Tolkien's Mary-Sue? He's certainly more perfect than Conan. Or maybe Beren, whose name Tolkien had put...

Well, you can have a "thief" or a "warrior" in those systems too; its just its then become a description of the particular skills each...

Conan isn't Howard. It seems pretty straightforward. He doesn't look like Howard or talk like Howard, he doesn't have Howard's name or...

This seems to suggest an inability to understand that other people have different drives and motivations than you do, or at least an...

Not like maltheism isn't a thing.

My goodness me, what a day! My oldest daughter has finally flown the coop, and I took the day off to help her move. She insisted on...

Came back to this because I remembered one comment I had that did not relate to the publisher/designer: Constructor fatigue in GalCiv2...

I find a lot of hostility toward remakes from that period usually pretty hyperbolic, so take that as you will. Its certainly not any...

I used to like that one quite a bit--you've got to give credit for a game that actually figures out when computer players have pretty...

Which version? The game has gone through seven versions, after all. And honestly, I don't see square grid/hex grid being a big deal.