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Fair enough. As I edited into a post above, I submit that the casual attitude towards extreme violence that is typical of RPG's and the gamers is as much a turn-off as anything we're talking about here, and its far, far more prevalent. What is D&D without combat? What percentage of spells...

To clarify further, I mean "denying" as in telling people that "the evidence is in" and "there can no argument". The following seems to your bombshell that cracks the case wide open: As I stated before, I do not see it as a given that women feel excluded by virtue of cheesecake that is...

It sounds like we did indeed have a communication problem on this item. If you are not denying others their two cents, then I can take no issue with that quote.

Can you present this objective, incontrovertible, argument-obliterating evidence for the community's evaluation? Women are not highly-represented in our community, but that may simply be that the kind of violent power fantasy that typifies the vast majority of RPG's is more off-putting than...

And there's been no small amount of wrongdoing committed by those who felt they were the appropriate "moral barometer" for everyone around them. Their convictions about what they think of as decent and proper trumped other people's right to self-determination. D&D, Harry Potter, and the video...

Oh, it's mega-meta. They outright tell the DM that rests should be a pre-planned event. But I find there's quite a bit of that in the playtest document. There are class abilities that refer to the designers by name. IMO, I think the solution is for some types of attacks or actions to be...

"Almost always"? Decades ago, yes. These days, hardly that. Badass chicks are the draw in modern cheesecake fiction.

Well, that's a gamer type they're going for. That doesn't mean that the existence of a variety of female gamers is being denied. It's certainly cheesecake. That's the business they're in. But the great thing about the free market is that the dollars do all the talking, not indignant posts in...

Well-said. I don't currently have interest in what Fablestream's doing, but I do get sick of all the sanctimonious attitudes that portray cheesecake as something only juvenile people are into. Sexuality is not juvenile. Enjoying the site of a beautiful woman is not juvenile. Sexual fantasies...

Well, a healing surge in 4e can just as easily be an invigorating surge of spirit rather than instant healing. When some people see a loss of immersion, others cite an unwillingness to extrapolate. That can be a facile assessment, but in this case I don't see the big whoop against surges. In...

Then you must've been playing another versio of the playtest. Or maybe you played past 1st level, and it gets better at some point. But at level 1, it's a pretty sorry sight. The battlecry benefits are pretty meager--usually meangingless--and the bard is not equipped with good enough defenses...

I played a single playtesting session that was essentially just a big fight. Nobody at the table seemed impressed. Takes aspects from FATE, takes daily/encounter/at-wills from 4e, has a bunch of fiat-based abilities a la Ars Magica. None of the mechanics for the characters were particularly...

Change of clothes, maybe?

So, Theon's boys just up and leave, and become the villains who burn Winterfell to the ground. In a way, that's disappointing. The Game of Thrones novels employ a never-ending series of castrations and flayings and disembowelments and gang rapes and other prurient acts to maintain reader...

Well, the chain was Tyrion's major contribution. Then again, given the way things ultimately pan out, I suppose his contributions don't amount to much.

Thanks. Wow, they're just slapping characters together at random these days, huh? And Garfield's red now? And I guess he's been de-aged if he's going by Beast Boy again? Heard that a major DC character was coming out of the closet. Thought Wonder Woman would be the no-brainer choice, but...

So, no chain, huh? Say, I noticed that Varys simply alludes to the circumstances of his castration. In the books, is that the point where he actually divluges them (and explains his attitude towards magic)?

Hawk and Dove. When will DC stop trying to ram these guys down our throats? At least they finally realized nobody had a use for the New Gods and killed them off. What is "Ravagers" about? Anything to do with Slade Wilson, a.k.a. The Terminator (that's right, I'm still refusing to go with...

I'm gonna watch this tonight, I think. So, they didn't end the episode with someone saying "Hey, wait a second, why do we have to graduate? This show got preposterous a long, long time ago. Let's just do like Community did and push the whole school thing to the background. Nobody who's still...

I use accents shamelessly. With new players, it is a good way to find out quickly who has a stick up their bum.