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That... ...is every internet argument, ever.

Well.... someone at Meta downloaded it for something...

Folks, I cannot outright merge the threads without possibly messing up the article, so I will put the link here again, and close this one to comments. https://www.enworld.org/threads/maps-feature-on-d-d-beyond-becomes-free-to-use.714609/

At camporees, we had leaders who would regularly send the new boys out to borrow skyhooks, dehydrated water, and left-handed smokebenders... ...one wiseacre leader in another troop took a bit of curved stovepipe, welded some legs on it so it could be set over a fire.... And so one poor young...

You were in a place, perhaps. But "there"? How can you really be sure? Because some sign said so? Anyone can put up a sign... They want you to think you're in Wyoming. But the key to knowing it is fake is very simple.... ... have you ever seen anyone... wyome? How can there be Wyoming if...

North Dakotans are fine. It is the Wyomingians that may not actually exist.

Oh, well, then there's the ones who offer to help you talk to your dog - and the dog being alive is... optional.

Who needs a dictionary, when a generative AI will hand me entirely new, hallucinated definitions? Arguments over whether "literally" means "literally" or is now just an intensifier can go out the window when the AI tells me it means "cerulean blue".... ...and "cerulean" means "turkey"....

There's a whole lot of "for entertainment only" language in the background...

I ran some years of Ashen Stars, a Gumshoe-based sci-fi game. Imagine Star Trek, but the Federation almost collapsed after a massive war against a mysterious foe, and had to contract to recover and catch its metaphorical breath. They no longer have the resources to have a massive fleet of...

An actual answer to that would be a massive detraction from the topic of the thread, so I won't go into depth. Suffice to say - you overstate what happens in other people's games.

To be clear: I am not making that level of distinction.

Mod Note: Hey. What the heck is this? I mean, that they got a permaban for it should be a massive hint that a moderator is going to find insults unacceptable. But even if you managed to miss that, the Golden Rule applies. So, how about you never insult anyone's mental function on these...

Mod note: That's your choice for a first post? Bye-bye. Please don't bother to come back.

It was a really good bit. I wonder how long he studied his Shatnerisms.

Off being chief science officer, looking at readings from the neutron star, most likely. I mean, that's part of the point - Mr. Scott gets mildly reprimanded for not asking for help. Nobody knew to send Spock to lend a hand.

Sure, they can do pretty much anything. But that doesn't mean that anything that happens is them.

Yep. I was responding to other folks, not you. Carry on!

Yes, I am sure. My wife got invited into a Cypher game, and the GM gave her that pitch - "it is a lot like Fate!". She came back, and reported, "This plays nothing like Fate!" Since then, I've run some Old Gods of Appalachia, which is Cypher. And, while some folks may draw analogs between...

Superficially, I suppose. Cypher intrusions are arbitrary complications introduced by the GM. Fate Compels are not arbitrary - they are specifically keyed to a character's aspects - they have a complication of a type narratively relevant to who/what they are. Oh, no, those aren't the same...