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No, it's not a job, but letting a reply to something one posted go unanswered can be challenging.

I'm willing to admit there are some thoughts that take more words to express than others, and I'm willing to admit that there are some people who think longer--or at least wordier--thoughts than others, and there's really nothing wrong with either of those things: I'm just not going to read...

Yeah. If you're actually replying to different points, or at least replying differently to different things, it's probably fine. If you're carefully and precisely destroying all context to pick something apart, it's probably not. It's definitely easier to read a short post, innit?

I think I just had a discussion elsewhere about this. :LOL:

Not only no, but hell no.

It's a pain, yeah. I'm glad things seem to be moving the right direction for you.

I agree that the idea that the players never care much about the setting or anything in it is at least not inherently true. I have a player at my tables who arguably does more to keep the games running than I do, and I'm pretty sure that all of the players care some about the setting--they...

I enjoy it when a game uses tropes familiar to everyone at the table. It eases communication and understanding of what's going on, and it means any inversion or subversion or unexpected mash-up is more likely to land. I don't expect a game to invent its own tropes, that rarely works.

Best way to avoid burnout is to do something else for a while--possibly not even anything gaming-related. Take walks, read books, go new places, do new things. Fill your soul with beauty and/or joy.

I need to see about reserving that at our local library of choice. Thanks!

Yeah, I find I enjoy the games I do more, the less I argue with people about them.

The authors I bother with seem to actually blurb sincerely, but I agree there's a strong marketing component to the practice, generally. In a way, going by what authors talk about is kinda like--back when I was much more into music, back in the days of physical media--looking at the liner notes...

I enjoyed Wanderers well enough, though I kinda wished I'd twigged from the cover copy that it was a riff on The Stand. I was actually impressed at his plague of choice, even though I worked it out like a hundred pages before the reveal.

Well, there it is, folks: Proof that you can respond to something that is wrong by saying something that is more wrong.

There's a reasonable case to be made that what you like about an author--or any other creator--is their taste, rather than their technical skill; so blurbs or other mentions can work really well. Of course, there are some authors whose blurbs I take as warnings to put the book down.

Congratulations!

Romance Fiction is the engine that keeps the book publishing business--at least the fiction side of it--going.

I have in at least one instance found an author I enjoyed reading because they blurbed another author I enjoyed reading. (This is probably exactly backward from how that's expected to work.)

The people who read those crappy tabloids and magazines in the checkout aisle are part of an elite minority that actually read.

I'm OK with not grokking all the biology--especially with the newer mRNA-based ones. I'm not OK with not getting that they work.