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I think, though, they still don't have the advantage of people coming to them with interest in the lore already implanted. (Oddly, D&D...

"Groups" is doing some heavy lifting here, however. At least in some areas "groups" could include hundreds of people who's groups...

Since I come by my opinion honestly, and with as much sampling as I think was possible at the time, I'd suggest your wants here are...

While to some degree this is true, if you did things like play at game clubs, conventions and other widely spaced groups, and...

I think you're confusing "inflicting random, arbitrary death to exert dominance" with "Were excessively hard and rigid in a way that...

A number of versions of it have some really hard breakpoints, though, and that can create problems of certain sorts.

How would we be able to tell the difference?

While I dearly loved Carrie and Salem's Lot when I first read them, over time I became less and less enamored of his novels, though I...

It looked vaguely interesting when they first came out with it, but I've always been less than thrilled about being dependent on remote...

There was also the 'zine scene. All of these debates about how to run/play D&D from adversarial (even extremely so) to far more...

I think back in the day, the base system was hard. But the game intended for you to step off the gas sometimes so that you can continue...

I've said before "Some people just want to know where their chalk marks are", and that can be a real problem if you want your players...

I want to believe you. I'm sure the silent majority of players are completely normal people having completely normal fun. But I'm of the...

Well, that runs into the wall you see all the time in investigative situations in any trad game where how obvious things seem to the GM...

One of the things that helped there is the scope of superheroes tends to have a broad impact on their setting and does so, well, very...