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I think there's just fundamentally different dimensions to the concept of dead, but I think the biggest one is more or less which direction the factors are pointed in, in terms of it's community. It's possible for a game that doesn't get new product to be building on a healthy community, but...

I think it works well, the main piece of advice I can give you is to maximize your total number of focus points if possible as fast as possible because your lightning focus spell is so good but I'm not sure if that's the kind of thinking you were discouraged from. The only anti-synergy is that...

To me, it's a standard of discourse thing, most of the time when I see people drawing an explicit distinction, it's usually that they don't want to be held to the standard of a debate, but to my mind the standards of debate are just standards of validity and soundness-- I don't like leaving the...

I try not to get into the weeds of "Isn't Debating" and don't tend to approach the concept of debate as discrete from other forms of persuasion or exploration, debate is simply expressing and supporting a position from the perspective of contrasting it with other possible positions.

I always preferred the franklin forum model: "all debate seeks the truth" thats what I did in High School, discussion forum of the day's issues.

I think I agree with some of his actual points regarding not trying to force the GM to play what you want, and the basic etiquette that players should be more willing to run games, but the tirade about who Matt feels is entitled to complain and more specifically who isn't had me rolling my eyes...

Audible wasn't around in 2012, so I'm not sure thats a good suggestion for OP.

One thought is that last I checked, romances are pretty popular with men, just not in the novel space-- in the anime/manga space plenty of men are obsessed with their risque romcoms, VNs are an entire genre which more or less thrive on being multiple choice romance novels (though there are some...

I've been obsessing over the Wandering Inn and Dungeon Crawler Carl for a while now, so litrpg apparently. Orconomocs was a great recent series. More objectively, Dungeon Crawler Carl is flying off the shelves at the library, as are the Legends and Latte books in that I haven't ever physically...

I actually wouldn't be shocked if it's easier to do PBTA, unless existing "writing AI" development rams headfirst into a wall, they can already generate narrative flow and dialog based on a prompt, or switching between datasets to emulate different characters. The reason crunchy games are harder...

One thing I thought about a lot when I was listening to this, was that for the most part I agree with him, except I don't think that his "getting back to the basics" and anti-playing-for-rules ("why am I adding numbers as a barbarian!?") works very well for a significant portion of experienced...

Generically I enjoy the game's magic items, there's a lot of niche items, but there's also a lot of powerful ones-- everything from the practically mandatory runes you put on weapons (flaming/frost/ghost touch etc) staves and wands that help you manage spells or specific powerful magic weapons...

My reaction word for word pretty much.

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My players loved that cauldron when they got it, come to think of it I don't remember if it was still floating around on someone's sheet.

I suppose that was the posts from different posters running together a bit in my head, though honestly I think it still works well as a response to your point because it illustrates the distinctions between role enforcement in a relative sense between the two systems in a way that contextualizes...

So one thing we're in the weeds of that I want to address, is that we're talking about 4e and PF2e in a similar breath with regards to role enforcement, but they're distinctly different in this respect, PF2e has much looser roles than 4e does. Fourth Edition performed it's role enforcement by...

Edit: you know what? I'm getting catty and I can't really read this in any other way, so as far as I'm concerned you are too, I'm cutting this off here instead of what I originally said, ciao.

I doubt that, team sports that feature roles are very popular overall, as are video games that feature team roles, even like the lionization of different roles in something like a rock band. I suspect people that don't like them are just louder because they're often confronted with them, and...

I was responding primarily to OP, who gave the example of healing, which is a combat oriented role, I really like being able to play a healer and having the game back that up as a necessary strategy as opposed to a waste of time. While some people dislike the demand for teamwork in pf2e, I...