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That makes it abstract, but not entirely meta. Whether it's from avoiding encounters, fighting, or doing fighter class stuff, it still...

That's not meta at all. That's just using XP as a measurement of a diegetic, spiritual essence. If undead can suck the XP out of you...

The game is buzzing hard in Cosmere fan circles (a couple million people strong), but less so in grognard RPG hobby spaces.

Egads. I know that there are almost 40 more pages of discussion ahead of this that I still need to chew through, but this reminded me...

Have you read Greydon Saunders’ Commonweal books? It’s focused mainly on what it would really mean to have the sort of world-redefining...

Yea, definitely still a relevant distiction. I haven't seen those specific terms before, but I've definitely referenced the idea of...

It occurs to me--and this could be dead wrong in some people's case--that some of this divide might be related to an old distinction I...

Maybe so and maybe people are just digging in on their preferences, but I do find it incredulous that someone would have expectations of...

i saw the hobby as a whole moving away from sim well before the 3e era. I won't speak of D&D specifically here because I wasn't...

This shall not pass!

I don't actually think ot is particularly niche in a field of the niche. Everyone has a specific playstyle. Few are more niche than...

In Rolemaster, which is rather heavily influenced by Tolkien, you have three "ranks" of Men: High, Mixed, and Common. High Men are...

We all float like nerds down here.

One overlooked aspect: BE the kind of player that other good players want to play with.

Don’t look at me, I made the Rambo joke. Doing my part to keep things not painfully nerdy. :)