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I don't completely agree, though I think these are good points to think with, and I appreciate the framing. I particularly like that tying player agency to a lack of GM rules discretion reminds me of the question of whether free will can exist in a universe with an all-powerful God. But...

The transcript of the week-old interview all this speculation is mostly based on is available at: CNBC Exclusive: CNBC Transcript: Disney CEO Bob Iger Speaks with CNBC’s David Faber on “Squawk Box” Today. In it Iger floats the possibility of partially (or possibly completely) divesting from...

Nope, just one who should explore the "ignore" function.

I think you're just more aware of the trope lineage of Star Wars because George Lucas has been very upfront and public about his influences. But rest assured, there is nothing new under the sun.

Completely disagree. The question was "best" not "most immaculate". But even if it is "most immaculate" you either have to allow cutting off your canon of what is the franchise somewhere, or else we might as well not have the discussion, because all great franchises will eventually meet their...

Was Lolth the instigator? I ran a campaign semi-based on that campaign for six months and never knew she was involved. I thought it was just a rogue Drow archmage who'd messed up and let a bunch of demon princes into the Underdark. I don't really know or care whether I'm right or you're right...

For fantasy, and overall, I'm going to go for the various Tolkien Middle Earth works, mainly on the basis that I don't think any other modern work better and more consistently walks the line of of being functional and satisfying as popular entertainment while simultaneously feeling like it has...

A bold statement, and an excuse to open up the great, 40 year-old debate: Is Cow Tools funny?

I believe Mr. Dustyboots was implying that "Maxperson" is your given or legal name, which would explain why you don't share it with anyone, people with similar names presumably preferring the "Max Person" variation or some such. Presumably he, in fact, believes "Maxperson" to merely be an...

This site doesn't make it particularly easy, and regulars have had to get used to that. The biggest problem on this front is that even when you click on "Community" to get recent posts it doesn't tell you if those posters were thread necromancers (you have to actually look at the rest of the...

Well I am now very thankful that the other Benjamin Olson who was born in the next state over on the very same day as me has never caused me any trouble beyond having to occasionally specify my middle initial or place of birth when fulfilling prescriptions.

Oh whey oh.

Generally I would recommend acknowledging your own necromancy when you knowingly do it, to preempt the snarky comments of people like me (often a good opportunity to explain why you thought the thread deserves revival as well). I'm mostly pro-necromancy, I just find it funny when someone...

That sketch was actually part of my teacher training program. While I messed up names plenty of times the one time I got slightly antagonistic with a kid over their name, such that I had flashbacks to that sketch, was when I had a kid whose given name was, evidently "DJ", but it didn't appear...

As a substitute teacher I always assumed creative name spellings primarily existed because people hated substitute teachers and wanted to make their jobs harder. They certainly don't make the kids lives any easier.

I would argue that this really comes down to WotC wanting to apply a general rule but being understandably squeemish about putting a money price on freshly collected vile of blood. I wouldn't allow the spell without blood collecting (trivial on about half of an adventurer's workdays, a serious...

I'm pretty sure they were cast to suit the actress playing their daughter, who was cast in a prior season, and that overbearing in-laws are a cultural universal. Which is not to say you're wrong, or that specific stereotypes don't, no doubt, exist in some people's minds, just to say that the...

I mean, it says they are "banished" to their home plane. I would interpret "banished" as also functioning like a condition, specifically a pseudo-condition of not being able to go to the plane they are banished from (per the normal meaning of being "banished" from a place) for the duration of...

My only feeling towards Threads, is that I've been making an on and off joke for about five years now when bombarded with someone's array of social media presences or parodying such, of offering to let people "thread me on Thimble" (sometimes stylized "thmble"), and this eventual existence of a...