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RPGs with miniatures and floorplans don't work and are a health hazard. Every time I try to play in them, I eat all the lead figures and have to go to hospital. Checkmate, atheists!

And the players!

The obvious answer here does seem to be 'don't play bad games with bad players'.

You're assuming here that the dice roll represents the final part of resolving the fiction (sometimes known as 'Fortune at the End'). I'm not sure that's a safe assumption. Certainly in 2014 5e there are various things that can still affect the outcome after the dice roll has taken place, for...

I reject the idea that we can play out social situation for real, or even anything close to that. I'm sure many of us here have been involved in lots of online discussions. How often is it that someone is convinced of something and changes their mind? It's not common. The reason is that we are...

Quite right too. I only ever eat my favourite food, watch my favourite film, and listen to my favourite song. I know they are my favourites because they were the first ones I ate/saw/heard and I have never been tempted to waver and try something else. I'm not ignorant of the other options, I...

My eyes!!!

Snarfonomics

The Snarfarillion

My first thought here is Apocalypse World. A bunch of the characters are gang leaders, settlement leaders, and stuff like that. Part of chargen is deciding the gang's configuration, ans choosing between different gang sizes, levels of equipped-ness, morale, skill, etc. This is in the form of...

MERP has levels, albeit they are slightly less exciting than in 1e AD&D. Basically in MERP when you level up you always get a bunch of numeric increases like in D&D - hit points, skill points, attack bonuses, save bonuses, etc. If you're a caster you also get extra spells known and extra spell...

4e was unquestionably still the market leader for at least the first chunk of its run. I suspect it remained so throughout, and that Pathfinder was only ever a close second, but let's not get into that. The point being, no, in fact having 'Dungeons and Dragons' on your cover appears to be a...

I'll engage on this because I think it's an interesting question. I (with no evidence) suspect that if D&D never existed, and some other reasonable trad RPG like MERP, Runequest, or WFRP had been the first published RPG instead, with the same level of marketing and support, that game would be...

No, I presented 2nd favourite as a minimum position, and implied that for other people it actually is their favourite.

I had to google WTF a Zima is. Part of the magic of old Marvel comics in the 80s and 90s, to us in the UK, was wondering WTF a Reeces Pieces was, or a Hostess Fruit Pie. Now that magic is gone

OK, but none of that in any way contradicts what I suggested.

Do you accept that meaning might have been 'just about everyone likes D&D well enough to play it, even if it might not be necessarily their first choice'?

You're just a troll. I'm mostly going to stop responding to you now.

So, to be clear, because nuance, metaphor, and hyperbole are forbidden, you literally meant that the post was a noise made through a whistle that only dogs could hear?

So you're now saying that the statement about D&D being everyone's second favourite RPG wasn't meant literally? Thank you for conceding the point.