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I think we should say that "creating challenge" ≠ "adversarial". Creating something your players must overcome doesn't mean that you are playing against them, nor that you are actively trying to thwart them: you are not in competition with them, you're just building something for them to go...

I have Book of the Dead and it's okay but I kind of got it for the rules completionist in me? I think it's largely okay when it comes to the revision, though there are still a few things that reference using "necromancy spells", which is obviously not going to fly in a school-less world. It's...

Yeah, I always have to tell people "Look, if you have a cool plan, give me the details so I can give you an honest answer about how viable it is so you don't start building an entire gigantic gambit on a bad assumption". It takes time, but yeah.

I've had adversarial play burn so many people that I have to basically declare that I'm not here to win, I'm here to collaborate and facilitate. So please tell me what the hell you want to do so I don't have you working off a bunch of bad assumptions because you feel like I'm going to try and...

Maybe it's just a -1, or maybe the GM decides that in this case it's not worth giving a penalty. You're making a mountain out of a molehill here. Sure, but what's the problem with this? They're not exactly ultra-specific, and just because one is leveled doesn't necessarily make it bad. Like...

It already does, it just doesn't give a set out scale. You can temper things to the situation as you like. Remember that we're already talking about a system where it doesn't ask you to add modifiers together, it simply says "You take the worst modifier of these three aspects and go" so creating...

"modified by any circumstances the GM determines" That might seem vague, but there are a bunch of things you could give guidance on like relative positioning of people (should people further away be harder to intimidate?), situational aspects (they have more people than we do, they have...

Yeah, it happens. We always pay for it the one time we do it, don't we? But I'm glad you at least went back and see the full situation now. :) (y)

It's there at the start of the article (Bolded by myself for easy of locating):

This is true in the broader sense, but I think when a bunch of people are going around online defending Gary's honor over a disclaimer, then this sort of response is warranted. I don't think we always need to bring this up with everything and certainly not at random, as I've said in other posts...

Certainly possible, and I get not wanting to read 100 pages worth of text, as well as there being sort of kneejerk responses when it comes to things that roughly fit these sorts of facts. People fall into routines, after all. But I do think in this case people should read the contents of the...

Okay, but that's not what is being said. Let me direct you to the crow again, particularly the second panel: The point that is constantly being made it not that the 1970's weren't sexist, but that Gygax's sexism stood out even then. No one denies that there was sexism in the 1970s, but the...

Like, this is from the time. If you showed it to someone back then, it would not be looked at as "Oh, this is just something someone naturally says."

I'm not sure what the start of that... word medley is supposed to reference, but when it comes to that last part about Twitter: there is value in counter-programming and not ceding the narrative simply because of where the conversation is taking place. It's way worse to let people put out...

God, the f***ing receipts. And this is why this sort of pushback against the "different times" schtick needs to happen: because the revisionism here distorts the actual reality of what happened. It not only softens the image of the subject and normalizes their vice, but also disregards and...

People calling him out for his behavior is absolutely the definition of "blowback". Trying to restrict it to something financial is utterly inane. Most controversies don't reach that sort of level to begin with, but that doesn't mean they aren't controversies. If this were the case, then...