Recent content by Umbran

So, just to note: Copyright applies to specific expressions, not to "ideas". Moreover, copyright does not apply to systems, processes, or rules themselves - only to a specific expression of them. Thus, yes, designers use each other's ideas all the time. This summer, I played a one-shot of...

There are stories and traditions in which the Greek Fates could be placated - for that to have meaning, they must have some influence on how things turn out. For example, we can look at the story of Meleager - the Fates might decree at your birth that your life will end when a particular log in...

Hey, can we not tell others how they think, please and thanks.

"Alignment" as you reference it here, doesn't have a significant mechanical impact in the modern game. Thus: from a mechanical standpoint, they don't serve a purpose, because alignment itself no longer serves a mechanical purpose. But, since the drift into mechanical irrelevance involved only...

Hollow West, characters Session Zero

Other than The Fates, of course.... And a goddess of luck in Tyche... And a goddess of chaos in Eris... And a god of prophecy in Apollo...

"Given them an inch, and they'll take a yard." Unfortunately it ends up as, "I am a deity, great and powerful... but need a spam-blocker on my prayer line!" Actually, it sounds to me more like using an in-fiction justification to handle an out-of-fiction issue: The in-fiction gods police use...

Maybe this was brought up before and I missed it... This was talking about the Commune spell, right? The spell whose description starts with, "You contact a deity or a divine proxy and ask up to three questions ..." So, I guess, never mind that the spell description has a solution for this -...

Your deities are limited by something so basic as rate limits of linear time, and how many cognitive threads they can manage at once?

Mod Note: Hey, ER? You've had your posts reported over a dozen times since August 1st, for various forms of being rude. Three times today alone. Whether or not any individual post was worthy of moderation, in aggregate, this is becoming a real problem. It is past time for that rate to drop...

Yeah, it is. I mean, assuming we are considering behaviors that are actually about how a game is run, and not about personal hygiene, committing felonies, personal assault or harassment, or the like. Not really. Then it is behavior that one player does not like. Other players may not mind...

Given that "bad" is a subjective human assessment, and that we therefore don't all share the same idea of who should be called, "bad," then what percentage of GMs "are bad" is not a thing. There is only what percentage some specific person or people would call bad. The threat of being called...

It isn't about academically accurate language. It is about using language that suggests a point is backed with greater weight or authority than it deserves. The first time I tried to run a game was, I admit, a complete and utter failure. As in, I could not get the group through the first...

No. Below average is below average. It is a statement about statistics, regarding some defined metric. "Good" and "bad" are subjective human assessments, and don't generally directly relate to statistics.

Mod Note: Interestingly, the word "racism" does not appear. If you are going to make public accusations like that, and the evidence is not present, then YOU are the problem here. Stop being the problem. Now, please.