Recent content by Umbran

AD&D was my second RPG. Tunnels and Trolls was my first. Marvel Super Heroes (FASERIP) was my third.

And, raise your hand if you recognize that a hammer is not the right tool to confirm this, one way or another...

Baldur's Gate 3 is a videogame, not a print TTRPG. Different products, different audiences, different expectations. Folks will accept a "M for mature" videogame in a way that they may not in print RPGs that sell to 12-year-olds.

Mod Note: Please consider the possibility that your approach - that has you calling folks juvenile, and then dismissively telling them to move along, when you have no authority to speak of - is part of the frustration. We expect you to be respectful. If you cannot manage that, we expect you to...

I mean, folks trying to sell you AI, will tell you it does everything, if that's what you mean. But, really, you don't only have a hammer. You have a human brain. Right? RIGHT??!??!

Yes. And note how folks don't mistake a hammer for an all-purpose tool? That's the point. Yes. And that's the problem.

Okay. I can see that point. And it has been a while since I have seen it. But the read I remember getting off it was not "we were right to be militaristic or we weren't that bad", but more "having been militaristic, we were left in this awful state, and we can now redeem ourselves"...

You... don't want people who have done the wrong things, for wrong reasons, to be rehabilitated? Isn't that the goal? To allow people to be better? I would myself find a story that justified prior militarism to be deeply problematic. But, a story that allows folks to recover from being bad...

So, since this thread bubbled up to the top again, I thought I might note something I ran across which is germane to this discussion. To wit: The language we use matters. Back in the 1950s, when computer scientists and engineers started thinking about, and working on the possibility of...

Mod note: Tell us you forgot our no-politics and inclusivity policies, without saying you forgot them.

I mean, I could take a whack at it point by point, or I can just go to... Nope. I mean, lots of people play videogames. You're right there. I play videogames. I have played D&D since 1982, and T&T before that. I play and run 5e gladly. I don't find 5e to be like playing a videogame. I don't...

Because these days, being edgy in a videogame is expected, but not so much in print game materials. Different markets, different products, different expectations. Well, that is why they went to the "full franchise model" - to coordinate different efforts.

It might not, at least not in game setting form. F'rex, this could be about plans for a computer game. Baldur's Gate 4 is followed by Dark Sun 1, or something.

I think you may miss an important point of your own question. Chesterson was talking about psychological novels - which, in his context, is about the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of his characters. Willy Loman, from Arthur MIller's Death of a Salesman, is a quintessentially "normal"...

Heck, folks at WotC just breathing is considered kinda sketchy in some quarters.