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Off topic: did that player have any opinions, about the choices of fellow players and choices of fellow PCs?

I hope you get useful answers for your purposes. Here's something to keep in mind. Last month a discussion of race and ancestry in D&D went on for many pages before it got so toxic and/or partisan than a mod closed it. Apparently there is a range of opinions among EN Worlders about race and...

I play in a group with two rookies and two long-time gamers. The rookie perspective: when your turn comes up, you must do something, NOW NOW NOW, valued only in terms of its immediate outcome. Preferably an attack. If the rookies had plasma cannons, which took one turn's Action to charge, and...

THAT is railroading. THAT is "hey, you're not making the choice I want to you make, so I will bend the game world, as hard as necessary, until you have made that choice." If the players stop in a village, and decide to spend a week helping some villager with something, and you spend a session...

I agree with some of that, disagree with other parts, will ponder, might decide that a longer response is useful, might post, might PM, might not. For now: thank you for the thoughtful, and mercifully briefer, response.

I posted, stepped away, then realized while chopping fruit that I had failed to fully address your point as framed, and you beat me to it! Yes, you mentioned currencies other than dollars. If we can stop or prevent $1000 in shoplifting, and also prevent 100 lost "spoons" of frustration among...

True. That's exactly where DannyAlcatraz was going with the example of glagtery suppression. I stand by my assertion that there are benefits which are not best calculated in dollars, and costs not best calculated in dollars. His example, before it reached "$1005 to prevent $1000", included...

Yes. Also: there is some relationship between how harassers act across the power differential of gender, and how they act across the power differential of age. Also: anyone taking care of a child is extra vulnerable, because of drains on their stamina and patience, and because "don't do conflict...

Hey, you taught me something new-to-me: the "calculus of negligence". Thanks! Well, you brought it to my attention and then I skimmed a bit. I think that's kinda where DannyAlcatraz was going, except that he was discussing resource allocation by the government, rather than by private actors...

DannyAlcatraz invented the word as a place-holder for a form of criminal behavior. He was addressing the "we will never eliminate it so why bother" argument, IIRC. He pointed out that the legal system can deter and thus reduce the incidence of glagtery, perhaps as follows: reduction by 50% at a...

Yes and no. Several in this thread have revealed themselves as attack dogs. Maybe not as canine, technically... No, I would not have written the same response. I would have pointed out that EULAs are a tool of publishers, and are therefore apples-to-oranges in a discussion of how cons can...

First, tip of the hat for good faith questions about proposed methods, and their practical implementations. Disagreements about *how* to discourage harassment, are at least a conversation among those of us who agree that we *want* to discourage harassment. Your questions can, fortunately, be...

I hereby nominate you for the Ian Malcolm Award for Accurate Alarmism. Sometimes being right is cold consolation. Sadras will *still* call you an alarmist. I mentioned a distant relative, who was executed by the Third Reich; Sadras apparently thinks that he, too, was alarmist; that the...

If a harassment-deterrence policy keeps you from attending GenCon, then that's one small victory for GenCon. As a man who has no problem signing agreement to such a policy, following it in both letter and spirit, and stepping up when anyone pushes the boundaries: I will offer what consolation I...

You would lose that bet. On day 1 of a new job, I go find those posters, and if I wanna double-check where the boundary falls, then I go back to those posters. I don't require a LOT of "reasonable accommodation". I can "pass" for neurotypical so well that my co-workers generally never know I...

It's posturing. I have chronic severe depression (mitigated with treatment, but still unpleasant). Optimism does not come easily to me. But I don't deny the possibility of progress. Some days, if I asserted that life is anything but meaningless suffering, I would be bluffing, with a negative...

If there was ever a time when such inferences were alarmist... and I'm not saying there's been such a time, not in my life... then it ended on April 23, 2018, in Toronto, about an hour after Alek Minassian posted "All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!” Ever since then, it's reasonable...

That question was bubbling towards articulation in my mind, as I scrolled through new-to-me posts, when reached this post in which you zoom out to observe the shift. I agree that the factor you name, is not the tipping point. I rule out the factor of "someone asked for specific methods"...

Citation needed. I was once a young man with a father, and your description does not match my experience. Can you show that my experience was atypical, and a young men with a father *usually* gets cuffed on the head when he disrespects his mother or sisters? Got sources, got links, got...

This is not the attitude which Gandalf brought to the Council of Elrond. Perhaps you agree more with Denethor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjAAC13al9s