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Sure. But then it’s not productive, certainly not how I think of the term. Productive discussions are iron sharpening iron, finding...

Yeah, the target audience for it is explicitly for people who want to create and sell a thing online. (His theory is you start by being...

I find Matt to be an easy listen - I'm a fan of his temperament (Mercer's too - not that I watch CR). Thankfully I'm in a job where I...

1) You can't generate a productive discussion unless the participants are all willing to be swayed from their starting position. 2)...

I agree. I keep this comic on hand and periodically post here. Stumbling on this comic was something of a reflection point for me. I...

Burning Wheel has rules for fighting. But I've found out of all the games I've played, it can satisfyingly go on the longest without any...

Any forged in the dark game. Combat isn’t its own “thing,” but you can escalate to violence (or have violence as a consequence of your...

I mean… yes, that is true, and anyone vaguely engaged in charop circles knows it. This reasoning for it, though, is frankly nonsense. I...

I haven't watched it (and I don't have an hour to spare as it's nearly 11pm and I need to go to bed!) but yes--this is a fundamental...

So, Matt Colville released a video about community building recently. I like Matt, he's a smart guy and I almost always learn something...

And then did it all again.

I wonder if they gave some thought already to non-adjacent domains. Like, is the next set going to be cross pairs? I don't have the Void...

I also wish that the "beast form druid" wasn't baked in as much tbh, it actually makes that class a lot harder to reflavor. A bit of a...

Right, so what I think DH has done that's pretty clever here is figure out a way to distill down what PBTA's would call "custom moves"...

I choose to live in a timeline where Tymanther still exists. And the Kingdom of Many Arrows, for that matter.