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I think this creates real problems in the hobby and it accounts for why we see seemingly erroneous understandings of certain games...

OK, some digging suggests that this is common among people bilingual in English and Spanish, probably since the word used to translate...

Heh. "Rule Zero" for bad rules is akin to saying you shouldn't arrest burglars because you can always just lock your doors and windows...

Red. WotC not producing desired material (like psionics) only serves to hasten the transition away from "official WotC" and towards 3pp...

I generally prefer for games to run for 18-24 3-4 hour sessions. So around 75 hours of play, roughly. Most of my games are twice a...

I wanted to talk a little more about what I mean when I say "short campaign" and maybe give an example or two. First of all, I...

This came up in another thread and i thought it would be interesting to discuss on its own. How do you feel about short campaigns. Not...

I think that's probably the more likely cause, but you could also see how this could very plausibly flow from principles based on the...

You’ve mistaken me for @pemerton . I’m simply offering a slightly different take to perhaps bridge the gap. I don’t think “encounters”...

The proposal here was to have a meta chat. In your group that might not be neccessary, as you have already agreed to this being the...

The fiction might be why we play the game. I can imagine other reasons, too: fun, expressing system mastery, socialization, and so on...

Because that's the GM's job in the game? Here is some text from p 5 of the rulebook: What Is the Game Like? Have you ever wanted to...

My main interest in these sorts of discussions is clearly setting out techniques. It's from others clearly setting out techniques that I...

Your question rests on a false premise: namely, that deciding what game and what scenario to play is itself something resolved by action...

Tests are things that happen in the real world, not in the imaginary world. In the fiction, the PC - for example - tries to scale a...