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Not gonna argue about shades of negativity. Good luck with that outlook.

You’d need to commission a study. Through do you feel that your pessimism is only directed towards single things or does it spill over into other elements of your outlook? My statements were very much in relation to general outlook.

There are large scale scientific studies. You can draw your own conclusions. I first read about it the effects in Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers (think it was Outliers) where a large scale study of students found that focussing on positive outcomes as opposed to negative outcomes before an...

It’s bad for your health. Markedly. You might think that it’s protecting yourself but it’s actually unhealthy as well as self-defeating.

That approach is one the reasons people never leave their home town.

I agree wholeheartedly with the first half. Regarding the second half I don’t think that the country you’re talking about thinks they can’t fail at all. I think it’s that there is far more capital to put behind projects and failing at something is not a bar to future success or investment. That...

Reduced anxiety, reduced depression, less risk averse, less chance of coronary heart disease. Is that not enough. How about if we assumed things won’t work then we won’t get anything new?

Thats not what pessimism means. It’s not just a case of working out what could go wrong, it’s assuming it will go wrong.

I think of WoT improves by accretion. Growing more a more impressive as the characters grow and develop. The World Building happens the same way. As the characters experiences reveal more about it. I struggle to see how the characters can be called uninteresting. You have… Rand needs to unite...

You make it sound like pessimism is a good thing. In truth it just diminishes. Every invention that works, experienced a moment before when it didn’t work.

Most of that list is demagoguery. Interested where you got the $1bn loss on VTT from? Is that definitely a thing? The genuine mistakes… are just that… mistakes. Better to try and fail than never try at all. It’s not like others haven’t flopped… Pathfinder Online anybody? Sigil might not have...

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

So it’s worth saying that I wouldn’t run a module for a player that has played the module before. There are plenty of modules out there and I prefer not to have spoilers. One exception is one of our players who I’ve been playing with for 25 years, is in a few of our groups and has a terrible...

It’s interesting. I’ve been running my party through Undermountain in WFRP 4e, and the bizarre thing is there is no need to rest. There aren’t per day powers and character can stitch up wounds with Heal Checks - up to a point. It’s strange to think that resting could be driven simply by being...

I think you have to remember that a lot of time there will be one target and they can only be toppled once. The rest of the attacks are likely to be used to get advantage from that topple. It’s not as bad as you think it would be. It’s also not a particularly common mastery.

Honestly, I haven’t found it better or worse as a DM. As a player, I have found it more fun and I find I am wanting to play more than ever.

I think what we are seeing is a bit of selective over-generalization. The worst parts of the 2024 MM are being used to generalize the whole of the 2024 MM while the best of other products are used to generalize all alternatives. There isn’t parity in the discussion.

The Kuo Toa entry for the MM spends at least half its considerable word count dealing with the various % of a creature carrying a certain weapon, the chance of various combinations of leveled Kuo toa and the ratios they come in. All of which is likely to be ignored by any DM of any ability. If...