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Songs are audio-memes. Stories are memes. Quippy jokes are memes... It's all memes, all the way down.

That sounds like it works out to to be about 2 days of in-game time per 3-hour session? That doesn't sound so bad, unless there are also long stretches of time you elide over for travel or recovery or something.

I cannot, for the life of me, think of a TTRPG that does "lock you into combat".

I think of it like error-handling. When the differences in task lengths are much shorter than the task lengths themselves , it doesn't really matter. In modern D&D combat, a round is like six seconds or so, and there is not much room for differences, so order matters. In my cleaning...

Yeah. I think in in-person gaming, we tend to cover over that with inter-player communication and table cross-talk, while in online games folks kind of sit silently and wait, and notice it more. In that kind of game, I still think the table is well-served if the GM takes on a facilitation...

If we were playing weekly, I could see that. We nominally play twice a month, so we're good enough if we just change genre after each campaign. I've stood up an "RPG of the month" series to run one-shots in various systems to at least dip a toe in some other systems.

Mod note: I see an issue. But maybe the issue of you pressing individuals on nitpicky stuff in a way that is going to produce nothing but increased acrimony wasn't the one you wanted called out, hm? How about stepping back just a touch, please and thanks.

Well, the point is that out of combat, critical things often aren't happening fast for the characters. In D&D, there usually isn't a need to break non-combat activities down to six-second rounds.

Consider a mundane, low risk example. My wife and I are cleaning the house. She's sweeping the floors downstairs, and I'm scrubbing the upstairs bathroom. Both have to happen, but does it really matter which one complete first? No. They are largely independent. As opposed to in-combat...

Well combat - or any situation where a lot of very important actions are happening in rapid succession, and the order in which they happen matters a lot. And that's the crux of it right there. When things are happening fast, and the order they happen in matters, we tend to need initiative...

So, it is a big-old, "that depends". With a note that there's a difference between what my character knows, and what the player knows, and both are relevant to such questions. For example: 1) Traditional game: Let us say that the setting/game creator (GM or published designer) had an idea...

Having looked around a bit, it might be more specific - it sounds like original filming didn't give an origin of the Silver Surfer, so that audiences weren't getting the intended impressions of the character. The actress was seen on set in the reshoots in a normal costume instead of the getup...

I didn't see a consensus, and maybe that's the valuable thing to get out of the discussion. It suggests another question - why should I, who has no skin in the game, care if a game "succeeds"? I can see why, say, Morrus cares if a game or product meets his business goals, and is thereby a...

Unfortunately, not being familiar with Daggerheart, and not having waded through 18+ pages of that thread to figure out what the reference is, I don't know what you mean by "this sort of system". I will take a stab at it without that refereence, then - it might even be valuable to do so! But...

Thanksgiving time release, pretty reasonable for this one. I'm sorry the real world makes this one difficult for you, by the way. It'll be there when you're ready, at least.

Mod Note: And what you ought to do is go review the site rules. The insulting personal jabs will get you in trouble around here. You have been around here long enough to know not to make it personal. Are you actively looking to get removed from the thread? Because we can do that for you with...

In my main group, some of the players have an acknowledged tendency to go down planning ratholes. They've gotten much better about it over time, but occasionally it still catches them. In an online group I played with over the pandemic, coming to consensus on basic decisions was a bit onerous...

Galactus has popcorn for brains. And you... eat it? Yum? Buttery brains... I didn't think this was going to be a Marvel Zombies movie...

Well, gee, then if we ask you to put your proverbial money where your internet mouth is, and dare you to actually do that calculation, in defined units of "worth", then you could do it! Right? Please state definitions of all terms and units, and show all work.

Because "it" is well-defined, and "worth" is objective and easily calculated? I don't expect that'll hold up to scrutiny. You, of course, are free to decide for yourself. I am free to decide of myself, and Goodman to choose for himself.