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Like I said in my first post, I can accept bear cavalry in a fantasy game because suspension of disbelief is par for the course. But then it's one of those things that's better left unexplained. People have been taming elephants for use as beasts of burden and weapons of war for quite a while...

That's kind of what I was getting at when I said I watched Gilligan's Island because I didn't have many other options. Fun fact: I've never seen a complete episode of The Brady Bunch. I saw the first movie, but never a whole episode of the original. I've reported your post. We just don't...

In a fantasy setting I don't really have a problem with bear cavalry. Wait, is the bear riding a horse or is someone riding the bear? Either way, I'm in. Practically speaking, even if a bear could be ridden, the cost of feeding and caring for a maul of bears would be ridiculously expensive in...

Even young Mr. Grace is gone? Are you Being Served? is one of those British sitcoms that saw heavy rotation on PBS here in the United States and it was rerun for years. I watched it in the early 1990s and I'm pretty sure I've seen almost every episode at one point or another.

I'm happy you and the dog are all happy, healthy, and at home. Now I have an important message about your car's warranty and if you don't send me gift cards within the next 30 minutes you'll be fined by the Department of the Interior.

I think only 10% of players go past level 10. Are those 10% of my players the diehard supporters? Maybe. But this thread is about what I'd do if given control. And what I'd do is make those diehard supporters purchase a separate $50 dollar book if they wanted to go to level 20.

To fit in with the TikTok generation, we should refer to them as unalived games.

You guys are familiar with idioms, right? Dead air isn't literally air that's dead, it's when a radio station's signal is working but nothing is being broadcast. A language that's dead didn't literally die, because as you point out, it's not an organism, but it has a meaning other than the...

I'd end levels at 10. Hardly any players go higher than level 10 and it seems silly to balance leveling and abilities with combinations that are unlikely to happen once you pass level 10.

Sure, but once there's a general consensus on what dead means then it should aid conversation. There's always going to be someone who doesn't buy into the consensus and wants to define it their way, but that's true for many things.

If they can bring back Dire Wolves then we'll always have our Dire Bare.

Things are so much different now because of how we consume our media these days. I grew up on a steady diet of reruns including Gilligan's Island, The Addams Family, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc., etc. These programs were rerun during daytime hours where a lot...

Every decade has shows like that though. The Middle is an American sitcom that ran from 2009-2018 and it wasn't bad, but in 20 years it's going to be one of those, "I never heard of it!" shows. During much of its run, it averaged about 5 million viewers per episode, and towards the end it...

Short term problems can lead to long term ruination. Let's say it takes 3-5 years to bring back those printing capabilities to the United States. How do I stay in business during that period of time? And 3-5 years is generous given that many people might not want to invest in big projects...

I don't want to get caught up in discussing the most applicable similes. If a dead game only refers to one that isn't played, then what a useless term it is. If two people are playing Cyborg Commando somewhere in New Zealand, then the game isn't dead. In effect, there's no such thing as a...

I think of it like a "dead" language. There are no native speakers of Latin, but there are still people speaking it. It's still a dead language.

I read that as Beach Gnome.

For me, I typically thought of an RPG as being dead when it was no longer in print. But what does it mean to be out of print in the age of PDFs? I have easier access to AD&D's Oriental Adventures today than I did in 1994. Now I think of an RPG as dead when no new books are being published for...

I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft and my main character was a Warrior/Engineer. This is when he built the engineer mount. I played some Star Wars: The Old Republic as well. If you haven't played, the game allowed you to have four body types for characters allowing you to choose...