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OMG! I was just saying the same thing when I logged onto AOL with my smartphone (Blackberry, if there was any doubt) to make a post on Myspace. Once a clear market leader emerges, that isn't going to change other than rare exceptions like when Atari finally became the console of choice forever...

Until it was again, just took a little while for armour to catch up.

Firearm damage is still hard to quantify in modern times (see; Hydrostatic shock debate) and it's certainly not as simple as a small hole through an object, even with the most basic projectiles. If looking at it from a purely game-balance perspective then outside of a white-room firearms have...

I just got the video as an ad on Youtube, thought I missed something as there wasn't really any context.

It would have to be 4e D&D for me I guess, only because unlike pretty much all the other systems I am really not into, I kept getting roped back into it. The only actual play podcast I stuck with for years (Critical Hit) played it until very recently. Mountains of "You just played it wrong"...

This is pretty sad, that politeness was really just put on I guess. Someone explaining they don't want to go into detail about their issues with certain systems (in a thread and forum where those games don't even belong) because of how unproductive and draining it has been in the past, isn't...

Yeah, I didn't mean to skip over that, it's just that in the fallout there are certainly some questions about how he used his position at Kickstarter. There are still areas of the world that largely are only familiar with their "traditional" cuisine, which is what I was referring to. Their...

I am no expert communicator by any means, let alone teacher of such things. The earlier food examples are telling though, I mentioned people reacting to foods they are completely unfamiliar with, and while the video aren't without issue, they don't come across as elitist by any stretch despite...

Not a bad analogy. You can still see similar responses on youtube, with Xpeople react to Xfood, things often get quickly categorized as "like our x" even when they are fundamentally quite different. Agreed, although with the caveat that they might already be playing a game that's a great fit...

What assumption of mine is wrong exactly? I think I understand what that sentence is supposed to mean, but I am not sure in the context. This sort of attitude (most people just haven't been enlightened, and that's ok, I guess) is almost required for those advocating the views you are it seems...

Moreover, some of us have made the opposite change, and now see that things that we thought didn't matter, can actually be really important for providing the experience we are looking for.

I much prefer to play in a "sandbox" for a variety of reasons. Maybe one of the easiest though, is that I find a series of "fair" fights more easily gets boring. Yes, the GM can use terrain, different goals, slightly above/below level "encounters", etc. but they do that in a sandbox as well. I...

Welp, maybe they should have run it past some teenagers first (particularly the soliday W), because they quickly came up with some... creative interpretations and now I will never be able to unsee.

Just want to say I think it's pretty commendable the way you seem to be trying to understand other people's possible reasons for having certain views. Usually when people try to do that it's to try to figure out how they can convince them they are wrong. Disappointing to see the usual; (That...

Thanks, (in no small part I think) to manga and anime, and maybe Darksun, I find that the; "exotic food experience" can, in fact be found in the dungeon. :sick: I never understood the dislike or "pointlessness" of Halflings. Players usually have a great time with them and the race has never...

All I will say (hopefully :oops:) about the nature of hitpoints/meatpoints is that they have never caused much trouble for me in actual play, no more than hitboxes or metacurrency or whatever. In theory having multiple tracks (as has been done in D&D optionally a lot) can alleviate some issues...

You seem to think that what I have been describing is "realism" perhaps because I used the word "real" (within a specific context). It's not hard to imagine a world where things function very different from reality and yet do not appear to be changing on a whim. It's not hard to imagine a world...

Really? Because I struggle to see how they could even be considered similar. Remembering that the preference being valued is something along the lines of "I want to inhabit my character in a world I can imagine is a real place.". If I know I or another player can declare things into or out of...

It's the "therefore" where you lose me. People can see their character as an extension and not get offended, and people can get offended when they don't see their character that way. Getting offended is the issue and it's not a necessary result of that way of playing. It does seem like you are...

Yeah, I've not seen those be problems tied to the perspective I was referring to. They don't want things to happen in-fiction that force them out of making decisions in-character, and they don't want it to be impossible to imagine that the world is not mercurial (guess I couldn't find a worse...