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Fair enough. Eric’s undead grandma is pretty sensitive about such matters.

On a very different scale, we're seeing a lot of that happen right now with the internet. There's often this assumption that we'll...

I was Rome some years ago, and watched someone have a nigh existential crisis over an obelisk. The obelisk was over 1800 years old...

Gatekeeping would be arguing the point in the other thread. I am making an observation off in an empty lot, rather than telling the...

Sure. And that's the intent of the thread. It just seemed evident to me that there's a common and recurring situation Whizbang was most...

People not knowing what they're talking about BECAUSE they've only played one or two games and are ignorant of huge swathes of design is...

But going into specifics violates the thread rules, eh? There's only one catch, and that's catch-22.

I feel like you're reading too much in here, Umbran. I don't know what he's choosing not to respond to. And he's explicitly not...

On the other hand, when you have things like people that talk about the hobby like a class-and-level approach is the only one that...

It's hard to say. Sometimes 'too soon' is simply not relevant, or maybe the point. Some half-dozen years ago researchers uncovered a...

Well, other than librarians being generically hostile to destroying libraries, part of the issue there is we're pretty sure there's...

“Has he lost his mind? Can he see, or is he blind? Can he walk at all? Or if he moves, will he fall?” ~ Black Sabbath, “Iron Man”

There are definitely games designed for and/or suited for a different focus, but I rarely have any interest in those games, and sim is...

I haven't seen an edition of CoC in many years, but it probably is suffering here from the fact BRP predates the idea of talents and the...

In games that have both skills and some version of advantages/perks/edges, both combat, magic, and "other" often use a mix of the two...