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Sometimes, that’s where I stop, then consider deleting my prospective post. Or actually do. However, I occasionally also think about...

And yet things are called action-horror all the time. There's usually one of two things going on when that's the case: 1. The main...

We pause here to wave at Mr. Calvin Morris, the inexplicable cowboy in Dracula.

In fact there's a fairly well known example of this (mixed with horror): Penny Dreadful. Though its mostly set in Victorian England...

There's also, in the past at least, been a tendency to focus very heavily on what would be read as single-genre things, enough so that...

Yes, but this thread isn't dedicated just to D&D. If you prefer, you can adjust my statement to "Everything is not about D&D, you...

It's fine to be critical of a work, but it really helps if you can show at least some effing evidence that you've actually read it.

It has become painfully obvious over time that many people think automatically that a quote is always a direct response.

FYI, these threads have multiple participants and thus they're multi-participant conversations. A post may quote you, but that doesn't...

Ah, okay. I just have to note you need to be specific that you're talking about "hit points" in the D&D sense; there are plenty of...

All true. Prior to mass manufacture people at least knew how to fix things, if not make them from scratch. I guess the claim I'm...

There’s good and bad popcorn, and cotton candy, whipped Jello, whatever. Very nearly anything can be done well or badly, and writing...

It would probably turn on how common/easy it is to do enchantment, but really, until you do the magical equivelent of mass manufacture...

I'm still not clear on what you're getting at here. Is it that hit point damage in D&Doids never translates into serious injury? Or...?