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For some styles, it's useful for the PCs to have a home base, possibly including a place where they share meals. There's opportunities for inter-character RP around a fire pit or a breakfast table. Whether that's a *secure* base is another question. The crew of the Enterprise live on board, but...

Indeed it should! If a path which satisfies both sides of the table is readily available, then that's a good path. If not, then it's time to negotiate. It might well be time to go meta - "of course your characters want to maximize their chances of victory; but do you, the players, want a...

If the PCs easily defeat the BBEG, will the players then say "That was too easy to be satisfying"? Or will YOU be dissatisfied?

There are, in the real world, people with both legal and medical expertise, carpenters who then become actors (Harrison Ford), and so forth. Some special-operations soldiers might be Fighters with dips in Rogue and Monk. Paul Robeson had about as many skill sets as Buckaroo Banzai...

I'm a player in a group which started Sunless Citadel at level 1. It's gone quite well. Many sessions, and many days (and thus many Long Rests); many detours, such as returning to town for re-supply, and fighting twig blights along the way. I suspect that we are playing much slower than the...

DC 10: increment an easy project by 1 DC 15: increment a hard project by 1, or a simple project by 1 DC 20: increment a hard project by 2 Are you using standard D&D HP damage? Overnight full HP healing? Wounds? Exhaustion? Do they have healing magic? Does everyone? That's a game-changer...

I played in a Shadowrun story, in which the PCs came across the tail end of a firefight between two strong groups. We finished off the survivors, and found a LOT of useful items. It was the GM's way of giving us an immediate power boost, but with ensuing complications. What if the PCs arrive...

Epedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher, taught that that souls can be reincarnated between humans, animals and even plants; he advocated vegetarianism, since animals are souls punished in rebirth; wise people's souls, free from the cycle of reincarnations, are able to rest in happiness for...

Have I at long last given you occasion to correct a "hippy"? I could quibble on Means and the "en dios" etymology, or on whether Trans-Bering qualifies as a sibboleth, but I'll take your word for it. Perhaps I'm in such a liberal bubble that my experience of who uses what terms, in the last...

True. I'm not *insisting*; I'm pointing out that there's a spectrum; using any of the alternative terms would have indicated a different position on that spectrum. I don't expect everyone on EN World to stand with me on the left side on that spectrum. (And I can't argue with how people refer to...

Title uses Indians rather than Natives, Trans-Bering Americans, First Peoples, etc. (and OP later uses "Red Indian"). Disputing genocide, however, raises the stakes. Try telling Armenians that the sudden decrease in the Armenian population in the 1920s was just an accident of history, because...

Oh, the point stands, regarding individual autonomy and responsibility. I'm raising the idea that even if justice is an objective phenomenon, we each *see* it from individual perspective, such as the difference between Kal-El raised with the teachings (and loyalties) of the Kents, versus Jonzz...

A Kryptonian immigrant raised on the Kent family farm, heir to the property title, has a personal stake in the matter, though the heritage is adoptive rather than genetic. SNL did a skit in which Kal-El happened to land in Germany, and he was raised with different values. If the capsule had...

Gradine agreeing with TheCosmicKid? Well, there are some things so wrong, that even Churchill and Orwell could find common cause against them.

This is not an answer to the question which I asked. This is an evasion. Also a straw man, but mainly an evasion, with a hint of temper tantrum. Until you can answer that question, as asked, I've leave further points and counter-points to others.

I understand the dynamics you describe, in that scenario. *If* I accepted your scenario as a typical example, then I'd be closer to agreeing with your larger judgements. You ask "Wouldn't you be?" for whether I identify with the farmer, and not for whether I identify with the nomad. You show a...

But that was my only assertion! Otherwise, I asked questions. (No fair answering the easy ones and leaving Thomas with the hard ones.) Mongols in 1200s present a divergent case, in which nomad does not equal hunter-gatherer, nor hapless victim. Beduin case also divergent, since nomads and...

Does this scenario accurately describe Columbus with the Taino? Captain James Cook with the Hawaiians? Mongol nomads with Polish farmers? The Norse Vinlanders with the aboriginal Vinlanders? The British with the Australian aborigines? The Luba with the Batwa? Village-dwelling Arabs and...

Alternate point of view: there is a practical problem with agricultural societies. Is that story - "haloooo" - an accurate summary of what actually happened? With the conflict coming down to a single homesteading family, versus a traveling band of hunter-gatherers? Do you get that story, that...

Yes. David Drake wrote an homage to Kuttner presuming that terraforming could bring about a Venus which matched the 1950s descriptions. But we digress; my point was whether contact could be anything other than colonialism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_in_fiction