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There's a couple problems here. 1. "Antagonist and unfun." Many of the people involved in this did not feel those two terms went...

The problem is that this is not one of those cases where if the wants are strong, you can have it both ways. If the game system...

Sometime the pressures of Kickstarter itself leads to mental health issues. I try to default to sympathy. It is just another risk I...

Good view and one I try to hold too as well, benefit of the doubt in general.

It is, but if you want anything beyond the games they supported at the time, you're on your own. I was particularly soggy about PF2e in...

Spawning fiction and the fiction being widely available are not the same thing. Traveler is in a weird spot because in a lot of...

Same. I've backed a lot of games in the last decade, but if I got more than three physical books in that I'd be surprised (and at least...

Look, it's like a ball sport where everyone is very competent and one isn't. While that might be fun for a while, eventually the strong...

i'd rather there be balance and everybody/no-one be great than for there to be distinct good and bad characters instead.

If we are not having fun, the question of”why aren’t we having fun?” becomes relevant, does it not?

That's true, but you're missing the point. The post I linked to pretty much breaks down, although it's essentially correct, the problem...

No, they're asking that games support their version. That's not a judment call, that's just stating their wants and needs.

The value in "balanced" is not everyone sees it the way you do, and they'd like to play too.

I've seen at least one game that tried to assure that and got an astonishingly hostile response from people because it forced people to...

Though its not particularly directly relevant here (it wasn't a D&D game or even fantasy) I sometimes tell the story about my wife...