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I'd argue most other activities in games aren't realtime, either. Even social ones.

Even non-pool systems that use, say, 3D6, things like that tend to get less lost in the noise than they do in a D20 or D100 system (and...

this applies to myself and others: Why isn't this thing i like more popular than that thing you like?

"What kind of fool are you?" "My own special variety!"

The latter is entirely possible; among other things I passively preselect for at least fairly gamist players (who are thus sensitive to...

The general gaming Discord I'm on doesn't seem to have a radically different distribution. That may be because it spun off a different...

The problem is that last part can make the issue worse, not better. I found that years ago when MUSHing; there were classes of people...

I think "most" is doing some heavy lifting in this response. In my experience, the kind of people I've played with would very much...

Does show how old this place leans, even if I'm so far the only one born in the 50's (albeit late 50's in my case).

Is wasn't uncommon Back in The Day to see people doing early skill prototyping by using an attribute and adding the character's level to...

As someone who was present for the original CaW vs CaS thread, I think some historical context has been lost. It was originally part of...

I think you're totally right in identifying that as a separate category that gets rolled into "Sport," which I've always found perhaps...

Maybe not the first reaction, but someone going in assuming action-horror is going to keep it on the plate (and honestly, those going in...

I'm not so sure. Its broken a lot of the constraints of space, but not of time; if the only time you have available to play is 6PM to...