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Novices reading the rules need to be warned what to look for, especially since many come to the hobby by reading a gift rulebook.

those cables need to be metal due to the stretchyness of plant fiber rope (and modern polymer rope, too)

The first underground trains were in mines... usually drawn by equines. A system with vent-shafts was used for the first steam trains... medieval tech could have done steam trains, but didn't — pistons would be quite bespoke, and a steam variation of a water-wheel could have been used...

In writing rules, one should account for the expected authority dynamics. Including the common enough «bleep»-head dynamics.

No, it's not. it's the default operation of traditional play. Is that door locked? Either the GM invokes a rule (either game or module specific) (perhaps the module says it's locked, or there's a roll specified), or the GM decides. That's a routine base level fiat decision. The average session...

It is in doubt until... Someone invokes a mechanical resolution the GM makes a decision by fiat Fiat resolution is ending doubt by personal choice of the individual with the authority to use their own judgement rather than predefined mechanics.

Yep. More importantly, they both can be partially right or even mostly right.

To be honest, I'm the type that prefers color pogs instead of standees... But I'd go standees in color before 3d printed minis.

One other thought... Someone mentioned animal intelligence as "like ours, but littler." I was on the fence for years about Koko the gorilla and her signing. Then I saw very similar signing from my nephews (who are CODAs)... once I learned ASL, I found it fairly easy to understand Koko's signs...

I have a rich inner monologue, sometimes my brain dissociates the character and I just ask them internally. More often, it's more like just letting me channel the character. Any major recurrent character has a dissociative aspect. Core me is always aware and in charge, but the dissociative bits...

Some times. FFG Star Wars was the one that got bught, because the SWSE rules never got bought and I never ran d20 SW revised. But that's the exception. There are some I bought solely to read, tho', so those, if there's compelling reasons, yep.

And yet, it's common enough to be a standard archetype... It seems more common in two clades: convention games, and GM's taking out personals looking for players.

It's better than a busy discord. I'm on several discords that have > 50 posts a day... and while I can scroll back, it's not worth it most of the time... so the few I am interested in get missed.

In re Forums... Back in the dial-in BBS days (mid 80s to late 90s), most BBSs were single line or dual line (plus console access), served from the home, and the popular software was discussion boards that looked not too different from modern BBS internet, save for being all monospaced font text...

Teamspeak and similar are already commercially available self-hosting voice options.

En World is social media. Just a specialized subset.

Given that it only actually has 6 levels... After the initial skim of CGen, I'm not sure I can run this thing with the players I've got who want to play it.

I picked it up from the post yesterday. Now to read the bloody great beastie. 300+ pp at 12×8.5...

Ordered in December, Final Fantasy XIV Tabletop arrived to my post office friday, I found the slip on the 18th.(Technically, yesterday as I write this.) It's big. It's pretty. My eyes glazed over trying to skim the character gen.

Core 3.0 is slightly simpler than core PF1.