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"Think" I don't necessarily agree with, but almost any game with psychological limitations as part of character construction can control...

Eh. As a word for monster-hunters, created in some cases by really old individuals, I've seen a lot worse.

The Wold Newton stuff is at least amusing. I saw some attempt to extend it into the future to engulf some of E.E. Smiths characters at...

Well, even though not perfectl, fora have some structural advantages over FB groups or Discords, at least with larger numbers of...

My mom always told me, "If you can't be the best at something, legendary for your lifetime, then be the horrifying example they talk...

The swerves can be--quite odd--sometimes. Even when you see how they happened.

Yeah that's a big challenge with this thread, it keeps blurring the lines between how specific RPGs work (or are supposed to work)...

No one is arguing that they should. Some people have expressed a preference for games where the internal state of the characters is part...

I'm not going to speak of D&D specifically, but I'll say there are games and subsets of games that signing onto them absolutely...

Sorry. I have a hard time understanding certain kinds of humor.

I say this as someone who has participated in making this happen, probably many more times than I should: it is always helpful to...

This is more-or-less the approach I've been suggesting, though perhaps a bit more brute-force than what Bill is suggesting there (I'm...

I don't think there should be a "penalty for acting in a way", but I do agree with "mechanics that reinforce the fall of the die."...

Thanks folks. That's actually really helpful. I learned something new today and that's always a good thing.

If I don't buy the new products, how will I know what to complain about? Duh! Also, I'm back home, but my wife and daughter are still...