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A quote from an earlier post: 'looking for a reason to say no either, we just take the reason we see as the most reasonable one in the circumstances' As Pemerton says, can a bunch of misfits (Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas) with no real proof of heritage, be able to convince a noble to give them...

I would say that if Hawkeyefan is pushing one true way intentionally or not, then the same is for yourself and Maxperson, around how all these options other people are presenting are 'not reasonable'. And so one true way is for it to only be 'reasonable'. I don't think this is your intent...

From one thread title, all I could think of was 'you must gather information before venturing forth'.

I just fundamentally disagree that Tolkien is describing a technique, what he is describing it appears is what all authors describing new worlds are striving for - to make a world as such that a reader is swept into, feels immersed in, rather than feeling that just reading something. It isn't a...

I don't know, at this point it just feels like it becomes a catch all, if Tolkien's statement is in support of simulationism, then anything can be classified as simulationist, including Permerton's examples of his PBtA play. E.g. that lightning strike one that seemed to cause debate whether...

I think it is ironic when talking about consistency, given the Lord of the Rings led to a fairly major retcon of the Hobbit, one of the things that makes the first edition of the Hobbit so valuable. I just don't see Tolkien's statement as a lead in to simulationism, I can see it as a lead into...

I thought Hasbro bought WOTC in 1999 or the like.

I don't know, my style of games is a lot more like yours / Maxpersons I think, and indeed about to run Shadow of the Dragon Queen, very much an adventure that is going to pull events out of left field for the characters / de-protagonise them, but I can see that the OP seems very good for getting...

To my mind where confusion is is that you're suggesting in prior post that E will grow as the set of S's grows, whereas Loverdrive's definition suggests that isn't the case - E is already all encompassing - so for me it is like a great big Fog of War, where the various S's in existance are...

I read some Manga, mainly Pokemon and Junji Ito, one because I like the franchise / setting as such, the other as I like some good weird horror type stories, and Junji Ito is very good at those, planning to try Kazuo Umezu as well at some point. Tried Attack on Titan, was pretty good but quite...

Have talked about the other cities of Gondor, but on Arnor, named large settlements at least / potential cities are Annuminus, Fornost, Tharbad and Lond Daer.

Bit of a sidetrack, but which are the 3 cities here? By talking about down to one, I'm assuming you mean Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Osgiliath, but there is also at least Dol Amroth and Pelargir, plus other settlements they mention Aragorn and the Grey Company encountering that some sources...

I think part of the issue ultimately is that most of us here aren't really WOTC's ultimate intended audience for these books - like I've said previously in other threads, I think WOTC is mainly targetting these books for the players who each year buy the core books, coming into the hobby or...

Similar to aco175 above, though I think 3rd edition also has a fair amount, and has some of my favourite FR supplements, but any of those 3 I think has a good amount of information for any of the locales you may want to visit, with a good sense of what populates the world, what states /...

I could be wrong, but I feel like maybe that is Micha's point - most character sheets list the sort of stuff you expect the character to do, and with d&d I feel that is more than just combat related, it can have skills showing what character good at and not, spells etc - if PbtA games are...

Thought I'd jump on here, as ties to something I've been thinking on since reading a bit of that closed thread, around immersion - one of the reasons I like playing in the Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance, is because I know the settings well from various material (Campaigns, novels, computer...

Lord of the Rings Online is still going as well, I have dipped in and out of it over the years, but been into it again for over a year now, looking forward to hopefully visiting Umbar hopefully this year :) Is still grindy, but I do like how it captures the feel of middle earth to me, and so...

Quite possibly, I think it could be interpreted to suggest they didn't think it needed to be under the OGL, but wanted to to release their content under it, and so could have stripped it out. I think it does somewhat hinge on how much the bit of 'without using Wizards' copyrighted expressions...

What came to my mind when I First saw your lyrics was: Pizza in the morning And in the afternoon Pizza in the evening And underneath the moon!

Looking up their statement on the 12th, it did have this bit: 'By the time we went to work on Pathfinder Second Edition, Wizards of the Coast’s Open Game Content was significantly less important to us, and so our designers and developers wrote the new edition without using Wizards’ copyrighted...