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I could easily be a cruel person who cares more about money than people in real life. I grew up with a person like that. TRivially easy to do that. Being a hero who can effectively stand up to injustice? That's a lot harder to do in real life.

To be fair to EzekielRaiden, I would not be surprised if at least three or four of the people in this conversation, if presenting "we will all be playing hobbits in the shire" asked to play something like a dragonborn who was discovered by hobbits in the shire, would be told no. If they said...

That is an incredibly bad faith reading of their position. Needing to be convinced my friend has had a good idea =/= not trusting my friend. Unless the only type of trust you believe in is blind faith. Heck, I doubt most married couples would just blindly go along with anything the other...

I'm not sure you have to go that far. Getting knocked to zero is usually enough to get most groups panicking.

I don't get to play in-person at the table very much. This past year, I've had one group that might meet once a month, and that group has currently shattered and we are trying to rebuild. And, I wasn't the one who invited the players. The person who asked me to run the game offered to recruit...

Those are not you threatening the characters. If I walk out of my house, and beat someone with a baseball bat, I have never made a single threat. I assaulted them, but I did not threaten them. Threats are "I will do violence to you UNLESS YOU DO X" not violence itself. PCs are generally immune...

I will assume a good control group was used. Kids with no screen time at all. But how accurate were the parent's assessments? Did the parents believe that the increased screen time would increase distractability and therefore rate it at an increased rate? I can assume that the researchers...

Reboots AND remixes, right? But now you are focused ONLY on reboots? and what? Reboots can only be reboots if they take place in the same time and place? That isn't my definition of a reboot, since a good reboot necessarily takes you to different places. And no, not just like Marvel. Marvel...

Sell me on it. What benefits would I get from playing a callous money-grubber that would make it a headspace that I want to get into?

Of course you want to keep the story going, it is a good story. But inevitably, it kills the story to keep pushing it on towards forever. And I'll note, that you say reboots and remixes aren't better.... but then you complement Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds. Which are exactly that! Star...

But of course, we don't know that those are what the options boil down to, do we? We don't know whether or not we will die in the fight. So, if your options boil down to a) Fight, and maybe die, to protect a child b) Run away and ensure your survival, but the child dies, but that's okay...

The game I'm running right now had a first mission. I started with five players. I am done to one player, and the mission had to be abandoned for a completely different plot, due to losing essentially the entire party, three of whom we lost before the first encounter (One quit, one vanished...

I would say you are completely wrong. People do not have shorter attention spans. Instead, look to DC, Marvel, Simpsons, pick your multi-decade media of choice. The longer it goes on, the more of its luster it seems to lose. A story without end has a problem.

No, you do not need to teach your players that failure means failure. They know that. It is kind of obvious. Failure meaning you can still continue is much more rare, and something a lot harder to learn. And, kind of funny you go from "you need to set the tone early on that the game is hard on...

No. It was just a fact to add to the pile. Perhaps I could. But would it be satisfying to see Moriarty defeated by... the butler who had never appeared before? She was literally using my corpse to do a ritual, the very next scene was fighting her, the Big Bad of my character's backstory. Even...

Where do you think most people in the digital age learn the game rules and expectations?

No, those are not options. Coming back later and reviving the dead child is not an acceptable answer. And look at what you presented FIRST "depending on your level and or resources". Think about that. You are starting with the premise that allowing a child to die is FIRST a matter of power. I...

I can't say I understand the appeal of trying to run a single game for multiple years, and only stopping when you die. That seems to be just a recipe for disappointment to me. I'm glad it works for you, but I have seen far to many things where "the end goal is as close to forever as we can get"...

I'm glad you have fun with the way you want to play, but I want to express my frustration yet again with people's choice of wording. Five times out of eight examples. That's how many times you either directly, or indirectly, stated that character's die because the PCs are stupid/idiots/ect...

Did you read my post? I DID advertise it. And then they still were shocked and kept asking, one person even said "we are starting at level 1 right?" when I advertised it as a level 3 game. That was... the entire point of my post.