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    We're All Gamers Together: Why Harassment Has To Stop

    Here's food for thought: forget about the fact that many of these sound like Lifetime movies (seriously, an ENTIRE STORE chanting "Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed"?) Here is a response from the company she singled out: http://imgur.com/X1amFDz
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    We're All Gamers Together: Why Harassment Has To Stop

    double post, please delete
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    What Will Become of the FLGS?

    I'm not sure that it's possible for the FLGS to monetize their playing space anymore. Thanks to the Internet, you don't need a store to buy games, but you can use the Internet to find games and places to play those games, taking the store out of the equation entirely; I found my gaming group...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    What is wrong with this category of players is that they are seeking to alter the demographics of the RPG community by removing "undesirables" - and I am part of the demographic they are actively seeking to eliminate. While I believe that yes, their belief is wrong, the problem is much bigger...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    Numbering the paragraphs does help. To the question about paragraphs 1 and 4, the answer is, yes, the GM should have the sole power to override characters as he sees fit. I explained in a different post why I generally do not allow homosexual or transsexual characters, and it's not a moral...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    So you see it as a good thing to get rid of the "wrong people" from what is already a niche hobby? "We're driving 'those people' out, so buy our products" is a selling point? And I am the type of GM who would ban bisexual characters unless there is a VERY good explanation why I shouldn't. This...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    So to answer the original question: Very unlikely, and frankly, I don't want to deal with the kind of players who would be positively affected by the blurb and you shouldn't want to either, for reasons I will explain. The most common response, and the most logical, is, "Why did you waste the...
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    Movie Songs: worse than the movie, better than the movie, carried the movie, senseless without?

    I'm gonna go in another direction for a minute. The Madonna song "Die Another Day" sounds like a cacophonic mess - until you watch the opening credits to the movie Die Another Day, which goes with the song. Then, and only then, will its seemingly random starts and stops make sense.
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Multiverse as setting - do you do it?

    My take is ... different. Not only is it possible for the characters to be in other campaign worlds - they already are. All the worlds coexist in the same space at the same time. The reason it seems different is because you are only attuned to one planar frequency at a time. So when you cast a...
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    Chris Perkins: Reintroducing Settings in Ways that Surprise People

    To save the brand. 4th edition damaged the brand; such was acknowledged, interestingly enough, in an interview about why there wasn't a Magic: the Gathering setting in D&D even though it was planned. Remember that they are trying to extend the brand into other areas, but that would mean having...
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    Chris Perkins: Reintroducing Settings in Ways that Surprise People

    Let me help you understand my view. I don't need a list of the products that are coming out, though I would like to know. I want to know that there are products coming out, and I'm not seeing much evidence of that. I don't even have knowledge that there is a future for 5th Edition, and that is...
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    Sean's Picks of the Week (0323-0327) - Lots of Pathfinder, plus Icons and Lovecraft!

    I did get you and Sean mixed up. As for my commenting on this being politics, I apologize if it seemed that way; it was not intended to slam the moderation, but to refute a claim from a third person that the statements regarding GenCon's stance was not political. They clearly were, and as you...
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    Sean's Picks of the Week (0323-0327) - Lots of Pathfinder, plus Icons and Lovecraft!

    The author of the statements called it politics and breaking his own rule against discussing politics. Tolerance is defined as, "sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own". Opposition to the law in Indiana has been about making clear that...
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    Sean's Picks of the Week (0323-0327) - Lots of Pathfinder, plus Icons and Lovecraft!

    You know, for someone who doesn't like talking about politics, you sure keep doing it. Edit: Oops, got Morrus and Sean mixed up. Sorry, Sean.
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    Gen Con Takes Stand For Inclusiveness

    I'll answer that. Joe's beliefs trump Jane's because it is Joe's property. If this was Jane's store, it would be Joe who have to cope.
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    Gen Con Takes Stand For Inclusiveness

    Because this is not about a law stopping me from doing something bad to you. This is about a law saying that if I don't want to do something for you, I don't have to, or even have you on my property. My property. And frankly, it shouldn't have to be a religious reason. It's a "my property, my...
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    Gen Con Takes Stand For Inclusiveness

    The Ram is a steakhouse.
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    Gen Con Takes Stand For Inclusiveness

    Honestly, that'd probably be the best decision. Seems that at this point, everything has been said. Now, the conversation has boiled down to"I'm right!" "No, I'm right!" Nobody is going to persuade anyone else at this point, so we should just move on.
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    Gen Con Takes Stand For Inclusiveness

    You know, considering the almost 300 comments on this subject and all its social, political, and religious implications, this thread has been going very well. Why can't we do this when talking about 5th edition?
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    Gen Con Takes Stand For Inclusiveness

    Actually, the role of the Sabbath is a great debate among Christians now. But Hobby Lobby is one of the largest Christian-owned businesses that is closed on Sunday. Actually, the Bible defines gambling as more than games of chance. Please make an attempt to understand our views before reciting...
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