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Oh, good god, no. People make mistakes and learn from them. There's no point in retconning if you're long past that moment. Even...

No it isn't, mistakes happen, you just correct and move on. I have never played with someone where, when I've told everyone the error...

That feels more like your personal experience than stepping back to analyze the class from gameplay perspective.

"those challenges" eh? That's a very vague and open-ended term. What does "challenge" mean? Learning a new game system? Getting better...

The rewrite is definitely more digestible to me than the original post. The original post made me feel like I was defective for finding...

So, with respect, I don't find the phrasing to be unalloyed in that approach, as already noted. That getting messaging perfect is hard...

On the other hand, it can be patronizing and condescending. My sister has intense social anxiety. She's tried DMing many times and...

Um... maybe you didn't intend it to be, but... "DMing is not that hard. We learned to do it when we were 10," sure doesn't come across...

Hello. I'm one of the supposedly rare specimens that find GM-ing very difficult. I find improv hard. It's very difficult for me to...

Immersion in a work of art is a personal thing, so I can’t really offer meaningful insight into what works for other people. I can try...

Untrue. That's just an excuse to only deal with one species majority for ease.

When I look at the reaction to ads or products framing GMing as “hard,” I see something deeper than a disagreement about difficulty. The...

I don’t think you are wrong but one big difference between learning when we were 10 and learning when you are an adult, is that back...

Disregarding for a moment that this is a rant, I'd say: yes and no. It's not hard in the sense that DMing is a skill like any other and...

Immersion is a subjective thing. There is no example of something that will provide immersion for everyone. So, when a person uses the...