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Your druid PC goes on a journey of self-exploration and spends 100 days in the deepest forest reading ancient Druidic scripts, and then comes out of the forest and tells the other PCs, "I've been reading it wrong the whole time! It says 'no medals', not 'no metals'"?

Huh I don't see the metal restriction mentioned anywhere in the latest UA Druid playtest packet

A true free speech advocate: "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" That post on Enworld: "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death My Right to Complain About It"

(In general, I'm guessing you don't hear this quite enough, so...) Thank you.

Hey, coincidence? https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/49017/roleplaying-games/untested-5e-dynamic-save-responses For my game, this just happens to be exactly the sort of acknowledgement I appreciate, at least academically. I'll also acknowledge, as referenced upthread, that there's a balance...

What? I did not see that coming! And why?

(To nobody in particular) I was reading someone's thesis about internal antagonism in online forums. While not black-and-white, here is the darker side of it: Those are not descriptions that I would want to be applied to my online behavior! If people can't be kind to each other in a general...

I also like that term, and I wish there was someone with a psychology background who could explain if/how they relate or intersect. (I think cognitive dissonance is something that happens to you, and suspension of disbelief (when/where applicable) can be a semi-conscious decision you make to...

Here's what I had read before about ludonarrative dissonance: coined by video game designer Clint Hocking in 2007 in a blog post in response to the video game BioShock is the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay Given the...

Um.... Ummm.... I don't know if that's cognitive dissonance for you, but I think you came to the wrong thread on that topic.

Yep, that sound to right me! In your example, I'd propose the cognitive dissonance comes from: you read the rule, it says only 2 magic rings at once your fiction/imagination can see a species wearing multiple magic rings And then you saying (paraphrasing): "I have never quite fully squared...

I guess sympathy is another life choice you can make there, but let me ask again: Sympathy or not, how is it optimal that the debate-philes have effectively created their own echo chamber as a result of attempting to stop every other echo chamber? (Or to Umbran's point, replace debate-philes...

Imagine a room with 10 people: 5 of those people love a formal debate the other 5 people hate formal debates The debate-philes hear the debate-phobes discussing something, and they wade into their conversation on why something is demonstrably wrong. Why? Because the debate-philes are concerned...

For me, it basically comes down to 3 questions: 1) How good is the status quo? In the past, overall, how productive has Enworld threads been for certain topics (like alignment)? 2) Is there room for improvement? If there had been more + threads on Enworld on those certain topics, is there any...

It sounds foreboding. Who is coming?

I am not a psychologist, but yes, I would say that counts.