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Yes, absolutely. It wasn't clear to me that both meanings were clear to all readers.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/Bakers-dozen.html which is also a standard expression in English, of course.

Time to try 7th Sea: Khitai ...

To me, the progression from playing a Noun Verb-er to playing an Adjective is a crime against English. I can see that Inquisitor would be a poor choice - but wouldn't Investigator have been an understandable and appropriate word?

Excellent news - really looking forward to this. Also - if a beta PDF will allow playtesting then presumably no requirement for special dice. The signup page has quick survey on previous RPG experience and previous time with L5R/Rokugan, which suggests that they're thinking carefully about the...

Good.

I saw Jason Bulmahn talk about this at UK Games Expo. It's clear that lots of good designers have put lots of good ideas into this. Some goals seemed to be streamline high level play. The rules for making starship combat a group activity seemed great. But to me - personally and as a Traveller...

Very sad to hear this news. Nocturnal media were also doing great work translating interesting RPGs into English: Wurm, Aquelarre, Hellywood.

Sanity mechanic in Call of Cthulhu

Sad news but glad to see Robin D. Laws say that "He wrote of his impending death from cancer with courage and forthrightness." Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men...

Surely you've just answered your own query. Vast quantity:devalued.

Yes. Very good points and well made. My point - that was poorly made with a missed quotation - was that someone who would appear to live in an Imperial system for distances seemed so confused by pounds, shillings and pence. I agree with Morrus that it's about familiarity. It's been pointed...

It's a bit like dealing with miles, furlongs, yards, feet and inches even though a decimal system would obviously be better? We manage to cope in the UK and the US ...

Yes, variant spelling would be a better phrasing. "standardized spelling" You mean when Noah Webster normalized incorrectness? :)

I think it's corrupted from "Reiver". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Reivers

I've played many sessions of many games without everyone owning a rulebook for that game. For me, a good game requires the GM to have a rulebook and the ability to communicate with the players. Celebrim suggested that you might want to branch out from d20 roleplaying (if it is the case that...

Metrics/statistics That is a very useful definition. Probably worth mentioning for the general reader that even within physics practices vary on data handling. In my sub-field we look at "error" propagation (really uncertainty propagation) and uncertainties in data fitting. We never do any...

I see. Your ignorance seems to extend to the well documented cases of employers, such as Amazon, monitoring the productivity of workers on a minute-by-minute basis in their warehouses or equivalent monitoring of staff in call centres. I'm not saying this is universal but the practise seems to be...

Er, yes. As in lies, damned lies and statistics - and 77% of imaginary respondents thought a patronising writing style doesn't endear the reader to the write. Yes. I was not advocating this management style. I was commenting that I thought this is where we're at now - and I'm happy to be wrong...

I agree this is an entirely plausible scenario for what could happen. I work in a relatively un-layered organisation so I don't know how large corporations work. However, my experience is that mostly these days governments, funding agencies and, well, the modern world love metrics and league...