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Well you see it was -- d'oh!

I would say confirmation bias? I don't think it ever went away, nothing does, there are always keepers of the flame. But it's certainly been at quite a long nadir. Nothing's taken the world by storm such that I've heard about it (it would have to be pretty big because I live under a rock, but...

Uh, should I post my voluminous rebuttal in its own thread, as well? Just asking.

Oh no, I'm real. Not so sure about you though. :cautious:

Are you saying Gygax had a history of running off with others' ideas?! :eek:

I mean, if it This is, of course, the right answer. What rankles is, if you bought the rulebook, you paid for the rule that you're doing all this work to fix. My take is that a TTRPG making the GM fix its rules to avoid nonsensical outcomes is not a "feature" any more than self-checkout is...

There's a concept in biology called "convergent evolution" which basically boils down to, life forms in similar environments tend to independently evolve similar traits. When Blackmoor D&D was born, Venn diagram of wargamers and fantasy readers strongly resembled a circle. So even if you went...

Well, OK then. Wait, then spiritually isn't this like if Taylor Swift put her face on some brand of perfume formulated by some chemist in New Jersey? Like OK sure, they have a track record so it'll probably be competently built, nothing wrong with that NJ chemist either, but like how Swift's...

Well the cover says "by Gary Gygax w/ Frank Mentzer" which might've just been a dick move by Gary, I don't know the meta-history. Not climbing that hill. There's also the tutorial map in the DMG (TBF: tutorial), Tomb of Horrors (TBF: killbox). . . after a while, we're saying "to be fair" a...

Maybe I'm the only one, but I kind of took this to mean why everyone's putting so much faith in an author that he can crank out a good game. FWIW, having tried my hand at both, I came up with some conclusions: Writing and game design are both hard. Damn hard. I am very bad at both. They are...

Temple of Elemental Evil comes to mind. And to clarify I don't specifically mean traps but general layout. The Hommlet areas are fine, but the "dungeons" look less functional than more like he wanted to fill sheets of graph paper with interesting things. Which, fair approach, but they don't...

Well I mean it depends on the "dungeon", right? If you're passing through the gatehouse of a ruined fortress, "randomly in the middle of high-traffic halls" is exactly where you'd put your traps, because the original builders would've wanted to create killzones right where invaders would go...

That's not what's happening though. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Ford revolutionized automaking, for example, because before he made advancements to supply chain management and assembly line production, automobiles were hand-made and very expensive. They were...

The irony is that the current incarnation of "AI" was developed to create an artificial society to control at low cost, and it turns out their "AI" is even more resource-intensive and difficult to control than real people. For now. They've successfully integrated it into society, at least at...

It kinda does though. "Scumbags" aren't monolithic. Sure, it's difficult to shop guilt-free in a capitalistic society, but there are companies that deliver quality product, and what they all have in common is regard for customer experience. There's often an ulterior motive like market share...

We're a court of public opinion though! And a mite nasty lot we are, by gum. / I don't even know what I'm parodying here

Well to be fair, this happens IRL and to large extent is the point. Ambush hunters will lie perfectly still for hours until unsuspecting prey strolls right up to them, and I mean right up to them. BUT that kind of stealth usually involves being motionless in a great deal of cover. As it turns...

I don't find that intimidating at all, even despite the disingenuous condition that everyone in the party is a rogue. I find it far more unlikely that a group would be all rogues. Not impossible, but I've personally never witnessed such a thing. I suppose the next step of this conversation...