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That was Player A's cue to say "Wait, no, that's not what my PC does. I avoid displacing PC-B. I mean, we're teammates, and we've already made efforts to coordinate our actions and follow each other's plans. If that means PC-A fumbles and fails, so be it, but PC-A is NOT displacing PC-B." If...

Last night's session. Spoilers for an adventure from Tales of the Yawning Portal. (The tale did not make *us* yawn.) . . . (last chance before spoilers) . So there's a room, with a magically warded door, which we manage to open. The room contains six sarcophagi, and an altar. There's a whistle...

You say that as if I had not already raised the same point, in the same post, a few lines away. Also as if I hadn't referenced the J.S. Mills essay "On Liberty" several times, on EN World, in the last month or two. "illegal" and "socially unacceptable" are both significant and they are NOT the...

That depends on what each of us wants from TRPG. You, with your goals, don't have that need. But you have no authority on what Hussar wants and needs, nor on what I want and need. If Hussar's fullest enjoyment of TRPG includes visualization of the party, and not just treating them as abstract...

This metaphor isn't reaching me. Okay, so someone - presumably, someone smug in the righteousness of their ideology, I'm familiar with *that* on both right and left - demands pineapple on all pizza. This is annoying, but not actually a problem, because if *you* order the pizza, you remain free...

No one whose voice reached your ears. You mistake that for no one at all. Your "no one" includes Samuel Delany. He wrote an essay, twenty years ago, about his experiences at science fiction cons, and who did and didn't share tables with him. More than ten and more than twenty years ago, MLK...

I am serious and literal, in that I am not aware of any year or decade, in the 20th century, in which there was less controversy than now, over who gets included or excluded, and who makes those decisions. The United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Has anyone...

The veteran who has reached level 20 is better at sowing seeds, watering and weeding because she has developed an ability to stay on task, regardless of distractions, fatigue, or conflicted motives. Her brother, at level 0 and Proficient or Expert in farming, may slow down when he gets bored or...

That would indeed be difficult. Third option: "Your creator may have assigned a gender. This affects your voice, and possibly some details of your design, such as torso shape and proportions. If your creator didn't assign a gender, during your construction, consider whether you have...

Please, tell me more about the time when no one presented inclusion as a moral, ideological mandate. You must be referring to a time before MLK's speeches; a time before one USA legislator asked another ""have you no sense of decency?" - hey, that was way before Gygax wrote D&D! As a literal...

Ulysses Everett McGill and the Soggy Bottom Boys. A guy with an oar across his shoulders, travelling inland until he meets someone who doesn't know what an oar is. A girl, a lion, a straw golem and a tin woodsman, pursued by flying monkeys. A pair of riders, one with a flag painted on his...

Boot Hill Top Secret If you did Robin Hood or Doyle's The White Company as TRPG, there's no magic item transactions in the source material.

If I understand correctly, Stove was "he" not in the sense that he might sire children, but more insofar as people treat "he" as default (see also, "The Second Sex"), and Stove accepted male-as-default "he" for lack of a more precise alternative. Perhaps Elvish has equivalents for he, she, it...

Cogent point, for TRPG. Today I learned: in canonical Eberron, House Cannith makes "male" and "female" Warforged. (Like a sexy robot lamp with a sword?) A small percentage of humans IRL don't fit neatly into the anatomical gender binary. People with XY genes and androgen insensitivity, for...

Fair point. (I don't see Bagpuss's posts, but he's not wrong on this one.) I played "White Plume Mountain" last year, and there's a puzzle about prime numbers vs. odd numbers, and I solved the puzzle without checking whether my character's understanding of math matched my player understanding of...

*sigh* Here's what I first said about Dexter: Half-elf was literally the first descriptor I mentioned, on EN World, for Dexter. Another player also ran a half-elf bard PC, in that party, and I hope that we played them with enough personality that players could describe differences in their...

"Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?" Discussion of gender sometimes reveals who stands on which side of the gap between "it's all about consent" versus subdual and conquest (whether resistance is real, or whether it's a flimsy pretext for deniability). Here's where I stand...

I am familiar with the Lewis Carroll version, in which Alice says no such thing. In Chapter 6 she says "The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things." Are you familiar with the Plato passage in which Socrates discusses names with Kratylus? Does your dictionary tell...

That's not what I'm saying. Who's "everyone else"? Who has made that argument? In what words? Oh no you DON'T. I described one of my characters, named Dexter, in detail. That character was NOT female, neither by anatomical sex nor by social role. Actively misrepresenting someone else's...

That pretty girl was a lycanthrope; was there any biting or scratching? If so, and the PC becomes a wolf under the next full moon, does she track him down, by scent, and how much influence does she have, when they're both in wolf form, over his actions during that full moon? If the PCs are male...