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I used an example that included magic, but I didn't have to. If you're in the middle of a tense negotiation scene with a local Lord Mayor and another player decides that it's boring and his character shouts, draws his sword and kills the Lord Mayor in frustration, then your character is now...

I also think the authorship vs exploration is flawed, because it rests on the concept of having total control over your character. You NEVER have total control over your character, even in the "default" trad way of playing D&D. You might find that some evil entity with magical power polymorphs...

If you can't express your preferences, then what's the point of this conversation at all? Stating preferences doesn't mean that someone else can't have different preferences that would make their actual playing at the same table incompatible, and that's fine. In any case, I'd argue that this...

From a publisher/developer side, maybe. However, I think Hickman just reflected what was going on in the player base rather than creating something new in the player base. In the earliest days of D&D, everyone who played came in through the vector of wargames, because it grew out of and was an...

There are naturally limits to the degree to which D&D can simulate that kind of thing. We're sitting around describing situations, and making choices for a fictional character; we can't actually experience the emotions of the characters, only the emotions that we (may) feel as players. And we...

At the risk of making a very out of date post at this point, here's a few ideas: 1) I know that the stereotype is the snooty "Roleplayer" looking down his nose at the hack-n-slasher and making passive-aggressive swipes at him all of the time, but in my experience, the animosity mostly goes the...

Sadly, I haven't seen Corey around anywhere in years either. He always did seem to have a fair number of irons in the fire, so it's probably inevitable that some of them don't come to fruition.

I guess I have a different definition of what constitutes said posterier haberdashery, then. A brisk argument isn't necessarily a bad thing now and then, but the toxic, passive aggressive behavior that seems much more prevalent nowadays is orders of magnitude more unpleasant. And that's fine if...

It's an in-joke from a few years back, actually. Sadly, my experience is that the posterior haberdashers tend to dominate the airwaves here, and the mods tend to amplify their voltage. I haven't been a regular poster here in over ten years specifically because of that. I still pop in from time...

Hey, Ovi! How's tricks! Long time no see. It seems we always end up in the same types of threads that devolve into wrangling about social issues at the gaming table somehow, doesn't it? I was just commenting about Lash and Ricardo in a youtube video last night. Funny to run into you almost...

Not nearly as hard as it is someone who is doing it. Oh, and "not what I said?" Nobody likes it when someone tries to "lawyer" their way out of what they clearly said by being an overly pedantic nitpicker. Talk about making communication impossible.

If you want to expand a little bit beyond strictly music, the first vinyl lp I had was "The Story of Star Wars". It was a combination of dialogue and sound from the movies, music from the movies, a little bit of narration added overtop of that, and an illustrated booklet that you followed along...

No. Categorically do not accept. This is—quite literally—the definition of catering to and enabling snowflaking. Communication is a joint responsibility, and anyone demanding that the other party accept all responsibility for potential miscommunications is absurd. In any case, to the greater...

I think that was mine too, if I remember correctly. But it might have been U2's Joshua Tree. I bought them both about the same time. But I was late to albums. My first 7" single was Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf."

Shrugs. Who knows? Whether it did or didn't may well be a matter of perception without the data to prove it one way or another. I saw a lot of complaining about it. I noticed it in particular, because I thought that the changes were among the few good things that 4e brought to the table. But...

While I agree with this, and it makes a kind of logical syllogistic sense, the reality is that when 4e consolidated to a niceland, badland and an otherwise easier to use structure, it seems to have gone over with the fans rather poorly. I personally quite liked it—better than just about anything...

Feywild is both new and yet not; D&D has had faery-like planes kicking around for a long time (Elysium in particular comes to mind although a specific Feywild-like plane of faerie was an alternate in the 3rd edition Manual of the Planes. I doubt that's the first time it had appeared in D&D...

There are papers about the potential plumage of T. rex that are little more than that, honestly. "I don't want T. rex to be feathered, because Big Bird isn't cool." I've literally seen professional paleontologists admit, somewhat ruefully, that the idea of a feathery T. rex ruins their childhood.

On the other hand, the short-faced bear, Arctodus spp., was larger than a polar bear and is largely interpreted as a likely scavenger. That said, that interpretation is somewhat controversial, to say nothing of that of T. rex. If Arctodus and T. rex were scavengers, they are the only large...

The Lance and Hell Creek formations (as well as the slightly earlier Judithan and Edmontonian) are interpreted has heavily forested, marshy coastal plains on the edge of the Niobrara Sea. In other words; just like jungle, except a little bit cooler.