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I have to admit, this is kind of my favorite way to watch horror films. Going in with as little knowledge as possible, not knowing what...

Yeah, that’s not something I’d do to anyone I liked, or might like. I myself like nearly all those movies you named…but none of them are...

Saying people should play horror games without safety tools is like saying the audience doesn’t get to know which horror movie they’re...

I think this, right here, is the basic issue. This is something that is quite common IME. It's not that players don't care. It's that...

Completely agree. Players will care about setting lore as their character starts to experience it in the game, and not before. If they...

That's the point. There was no functional way for them to play in those games, because the setting wouldn't work right without those...

But, generally, that's not the issue. No one has a problem with having objectively evil sapient beings in D&D. The dev's certainly...

That's the rub; a good player can make a Dragonborn warlock fit like a glove and and a bad player can make a human fighter stick out...

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.