Recent content by Thomas Shey

As I've noted, I've played in a context where the latter was true (superheroes rather than fantasy, but the principal wouldn't be radically different). As I said, it had some virtues, and when it went well was golden, but I think was waaaay too dependent on the whole on people being on the same...

Ah, was someone I'm not seeing so I was missing context.

I gather you don't consider a significant difference between those two?

"Think" I don't necessarily agree with, but almost any game with psychological limitations as part of character construction can control how you act under some circumstances. You've bought into that by taking them, but sometimes its pretty unattractive not to have a couple at least.

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 one point.

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

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

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 surrender some agency, depending on how absolutist you are in how you view them. Pendragon has been mentioned, but any game where you take psychological disasdvantages...

I say this as someone who has participated in making this happen, probably many more times than I should: it is always helpful to remember that any thread, given sufficient time, will turn into an entirely different thread that it starts out as. It may or may not have turned into degenerate...

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 not quite clear on an example of what they mean).

Say, my usage of Amazon. Well, in some ways its closer to them. Heh. I'm not even going to talk about my eating today...

Took me years to internalize that (partly because of my finances). I used to buy typical Payless jobs and blow through them in relatively short order. Then I shifted over to New Balance, and when they stopped making the ones I liked, Brooks and have never looked back.

Maybe they still like the game and don't automatically avoid giving money to people who have products they like where they don't like the people. It isn't universal.

And sometimes its being context-blind or least dim-visioned. If you come from certain backgrounds being really friggin' fussy about some things is second nature--in the appropriate context. But it isn't always necessary or even useful in general discussion, even sometimes of the same subject.