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Don't you ever complain about anyone misconstrued you again.

Shortly after that post, my wife went up into the Kitten Vortex, where the kitten was on my desk, hiding behind my monitor. My wife started to give the kitten some treats, and apparently between one treat and the next, a switch went off in her little head, and shy went away. Now, she's a...

And, life does go on. Our other cat was showing signs of being lonely, and my wife admitted to feeling a bit of "empty lap syndrome". So, there is now a kitten. Just picked her up today. She's 14 weeks old, and 1.96kg (so, about 4.3 lbs), a shorthair, dilute calico. We have her cordoned...

Luis, so you are aware - use of "they" or "them" as an individual, non-gendered pronouns in English goes back to the 15th century, at least - William Shakespeare made use of it, for example. It is not some new evolution by some small group.

You can reskin the entire game, sure. The result will not bear any resemblance to what happens in Pride and Prejudice, however. Making something that matches a genre is more than just having words from that genre in the rules. You cannot change "hit points" to "emotional resistance" and...

By this logic, you can intermingle chess, Monopoly, and Settlers of Catan and say, "just use the rules for the game you want," and have the result be coherent. Technically, we should be able to put all the rules for every RPG ever written together in a big blender, and have what comes out be...

We can approach this with a more extreme example: Would you use the same mechanics to run a game that's supposed to make players feel like their characters are in a Robert E. Howard/Conan novel as in a Jane Austen/Pride & Prejudice type novel? Given that Mr. Darcy never swings a sword...

I don't think that "beer and pretzels" specifically ties with tactical wargame play, though. It isn't like the world isn't completely filled with pulpy goodness adventure stories that are full of tropes and cliches and not given a whole lot of serious thought. A beer-and-pretzels narrative...

Mod not: Hey, Michael? Are you, like, spending your off-time crawling around inspecting behemoth junk? Because English grammar, for centuries, has used they/them/their for entities of unspecified gender. So, we are left with either you having an unsettling familiarity with the nether...

For my gaming circles... When a group is GM and 5+ players, we typically move forward if one player is absent, cancel for that week if there are two or more absent. When a group is GM and 4 or fewer player, and one is absent, we typically cancel for that week. My games are generally on a...

1) You don't get to decide what "needs" to happen - individual posters don't get to exert editorial control over what others post. Folks who aren't interested in that line of discussion are free to not engage. If too few are interested, that sub-topic will die on its own without your...

So, we can start looking at that question with another question: Where does the truly casual player fit in in a game that allows high degrees of combat optimization in play? I think the answer is the same - you have to take some care to either make sure the entire table has similar intents...

We are not limiting discussion to casual players. But explicitly including them. He's asking where do casual players fit in this scheme of narrative play.

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