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Is that fun for them? I think it would be much more fun to have someone discuss new expectations for this game, then kill my character for not playing by rules I had no reason to know. That's a playstyle question. A lot of DMs would rather that then worry about spending all session trying to...

I feel the first part of the article was quite relevant here. If there's a 10% chance of the party dying in any particular battle, they won't last long. In WoD, there's setting features to discourage the bad guys from just murdering the PCs. In D&D, there's creatures that have no reason not to...

D&D 3.5 was the epitome of a edition change; they reprinted the PHB, DMG and MM for the new edition, plus many of the other books (e.g. Defenders of the Faith was rereleased as Complete Divine). The Player's Option books were not treated as basic books, nor were they expanded on. If the UA was...

I'm disagreeing with what I was replying to, which was that we can conclude how much Diamond Distributors sold of Paizo by Amazon numbers.

A visible divergence in Amazon data means what? If all you have is product positions, it's possible both D&D and Pathfinder had identical changes in sales, with other products causing the different changes in positions. The second point doesn't necessarily mean anything. Secondly, are you...

Which is assuming that 5E and Pathfinder are closely analogous here. I think the rest of this thread makes it clear they are not. Adding in the fact that game stores are closed, coming to conclusions about the sales of Paizo through one distributor seems unreliable at best.

What numbers do you have to support the movement of their Amazon sales? Given that Amazon offers only relative sales numbers, it would be hard to tell with everything else subject to similar and chaotic forces. More over, FLGSs have closed their doors all over the place, so it's hard to separate...

As opposed to some guy on Enworld who doesn't say he's a lawyer? I wouldn't put any real weight on either one, and as I said, even if the first one is accurate, it's not a very comprehensive claim.

You cut his post to remove his factual claim. They're not directly contradictory. I wonder how meaningful the second claim is; Gary Gygax said, as per the Dangerous Journeys lawsuit, "there is available somewhere online a copy of the original TSR motion put before the court in Peoria, Illinois."...

Not all trademarks are registered, but this would have been a hard case. But this really is stupid stuff; you start with a polite request to cut it out; if you insist on starting with a legalistic approach, start with a C&D. Why start with all of the cost of a lawsuit when they probably could...

Seriously? You don't understand that you're making a definitional argument about what the definition of cheating is? The definition of cheating says "violating the rules". Therefore there is no such thing as "cheating de factor". If you disagree, then you're making a definitional argument...

Yes, I do. I've given you a functional definition: "To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation", taken from a dictionary, so it's not incredibly idiosyncratic. Why go "Ok. :uhoh:"? GMs keep a lot of activity secret from the players. Most games involve some sort of secret...

So you want to claim the credit for attacking people for using the dictionary definition of "cheat", but decline to explain why that was reasonable, or why you didn't use yourself as an example of people arguing over the definition of English words?

I'm not sure that's the end point of the argument. Getting the definitions straight should be the first part of the argument. Then actual discussion can happen, instead of absurd claims like "it is a fact that this is cheating". A dictionary definition of cheating is "To violate rules in order...

In the definition of "cheating" in my idiolect, if it's "expected and generally accepted as perfectly fine", it can't be cheating. Fine, your idiolect is different. That doesn't mean that we're doublethinking anything. Someone who cheats is a filthy, low-down, good-for-nothing cheat. Is it...

If someone has a character with the Luck domain (Pathfinder), is it cheating if they use their power to reroll a d20? The fact that you cheat in friendly games is disturbing; what makes you think it's okay? If you want to define it as cheating, then you shouldn't be doing it.

I don't see any way to define political correctness in this context such that it's not just a subset of changing tastes. As a child of the 1980s, I got participation trophies; that means even if Gygax didn't get participation trophies, it was his generation (or a previous one) that invented them...

Jaywalking was not illegal anywhere until Big Auto pushed for the right for cars to careen down streets at ridiculous speeds.* The social contract changed, such that what once was a place for horse and people to share was now the primary property of the car. Even now, there are places where you...

Actually, an Apple II or TRS 80 could probably handle a complete AD&D PHB 1st level character generator sans equipment and spells, and would have no problem rolling dice as many times as needed.

Often not in fiction. How many teenage supergeniuses invent time-machines and other superscience creations? I find three months quite implausible; that level of arcane mastery should take much more time. If it takes three months, we would be looking at a world where everyone would pick up as...