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And you need to recognize that there are players--quite a lot of them IME--who don't want to seriously deal with any setting's lore...

Guess what kind of games I was referring to with "high convention"? The point was, they just flat out wouldn't play those genres, even...

Though those Simulationists tended to get more than a bit weird when high-convention genres came up, in part because they virtually...

I can confirm that. I was there as one of the impure Simulationist GMs. And there were arguments about whether or not randomizers could...

Discord, in my experience, works pretty well for relatively small groups, but the larger the active user base of a given Discord is, the...

I'm not saying I prefer Reddit or Discords over discussion boards; I find the formats kind of annoying for any extensive discussion in...

That always annoys me. I want to search and copy and paste.

I'm still a member of an active listserv. :p I can't help but feel like people claiming ENWorld and other forums aren't social media...

Odd. I don't even want most of what my first two big systems gave me any more.

Or, as far as that goes, mailing lists (and, yes, I was around for both).

I acknowledge you think so. Now you'll have to acknowledge I think they have considerable overlap in how they work in practice. I've...

While different flavors have differences, I think this ignores how much some of them overlap (particularly Discord and Reddit).

Indeed, AGE designers have said some of the stuff from Modern AGE and The Expanse AGE ended up Fantasy AGE 2e for that reason.

I haven't seen it in play so far, but I will say after a detailed read there were obviously some serious attempts to solve problems that...

I think the problem here is "believability" is a moving target, not only on the viewer, but on genre and setting. Things that might be...