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Heard that one before. In principle, i agree. Problem is, what is evil and good falls under morality and ethics and those are subjective. We were talking about public spaces. Not our home games. When it comes to home games, i don't tolerate that kind of behavior towards fellow players at the...

If you feel you have moral imperative to call it out, you do you. I applaud you for activism. I'm to cynical for that. My idealism died long time ago. Yes. While laws of the land apply to what's said in online spaces, those spaces also have Terms of service and Rules of conduct. You can say...

I would argue that social media spaces aren't public places. They are private places open to public. There is difference in those two. Rules are different. On social media, owners are the one who sets what is ok and what isn't. In public spaces, laws and public regulations dictate what is ok and...

I'm just saying that is hard to ban people from the hobby when most people engage with hobby in private setting. In those instances, only thing one can do is not to engage with people one doesn't like. I agree, it's easier in convention or organised setting, but, as i said, that's not really a...

First and foremost, i'm not from USA, but from small EU country. I also lived in Germany (Munich),Austria (Vienna) and Italy (Milano). From personal experience, organised play just isn't big thing here. Even in game stores, people who do play, are mostly already formed friend/acquaintance groups...

James Bond from Temu :D Forgot to add. Every table, every gaming group is community for itself. That's the beauty of this hobby.

It's legible enough. :D Morality is subject of a debate i won't touch with 11 foot pole. Personally, i'm live and let die person. But out of curiosity, how can you remove someone from hobby? Sure, you can ban someone from convention. But- they can organize their own. You can ban them from your...

It's 100 pages. Sorry, but don't have time to slog trough all of it. I was asking genuine question about levels at which sexism is present. If we are talking about individual tables- sure. It's there. No point denying it. But, there isn't much you can do about it except not play with those...

We managed to play on almost weekly basis from early January to mid July. That kind of consistency of play wasn't achieved by my group since 2019.

Depends on the context. Are we talking about individual game tables, convention attendees, company reps at conventions or products themselves?

Difference between Mattel and TSR is night and day. Mattel was publicly traded company since early 60's. TSR was, even at it's peak, smallish company. Mattel was also run by people that cared about making money. TSR, well, not so much. They made so much stupid business mistakes, it's pure luck...

I don't have particular number in mind. PC death happens as a mix of bad luck (on the players side), very good luck on DMs side, poor player decisions ( Leroooy Jenkins style will get you killed). I do have some house rules that make game more dangerous though.

RPG's, D&D specifically, grew out from miniature war gaming. Niche hobby dominated by men in 60's and 70s. They targeted same majority demographic that played miniature war games. Yes, they made educated guess at what would their prime consumer base would be and went all in. And, as i said...

Let's ask ourself the big question. Who was primary and overwhelming majority of customers that bought these products? And what usually sells products among those demographics? Answer to that questions is one of the reasons why artwork back then was the way it was. To put it plain and simple...

It was, is and always will be sexist, as long as there are people involved. Some people are just aholes, some just like to behave like ones in the games. While products can improve and are improving, there will always be tables with players/DMs that are naughty word. No helping there. Best thing you...

I killed characters in abundance. But i give fair warning at session zero that my games are grim, gritty and more lethal than usual. But in most cases, if players are smart, they can avoid combat all together or sound tactical retreat (for that one, they do need to plan ahead, but there is...

Combat where life or serious body harm is not on the line is- sport. At least for me. TTRPG-s are tools. Systems of various mechanics used to mostly resolve conflict in more or less unbiased way. You can use those rules to recreate fiction or you can use them to recreate worlds. FE as a DM i...

Well, at least in any game i played that involves rolls to hit and damage in combat. Like i said, if they like that, good for them. :D (sidenote, i don't really like Soulsborne games). But in souls games, you die. A lot. You just don't die permanently. It's not game over- load last save. You...

Well, i started with 3.5, when 4th came out, we stayed for some time, then switched to PF1. There was period of about 2 years where we ditched D&D and played only 7th sea, after that about year and a half of only WoD. When Next playtest came, we switched our relativley new 2ed ad&d campaign to...

Sure you can. If you like it, go for it. One of the easiest ways to do it is to give players control if they even want to engage in a fight ( no ambushes) and give only opponents that are reasonable enough and don't have kill on sight mentality (for example, pack of hungry predator animals...