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I started reading Triplanetary, the first Lensman book, by E. E. “Doc” Smith. Almost immediately stopped and read the wiki only to discover the first two books by internal chronology are prequels. Grabbed Galactic Patrol, the third book by internal chronology but the first actually written. And...

Depends on which violation you think is worse. At a guess quite a few people would rather die than have their mind invaded and taken over. But that assumes murder is okay. Which it clearly isn’t.

Causing harm is evil. Preventing harm, i.e. self defense, is good. Causing harm to prevent harm is somehow good? That’s confusing. Unless we’re measuring harm and comparing them. Say a broken arm vs a death. Breaking an arm to prevent death is clearly a worthwhile trade. But an arm has still...

You seem to have misunderstood me. The Jedi mind trick is 100% obviously mind control. Lying and deception are 100% obviously not mind control. They are categorically different things. It's not good because you're removing someone's free will. Regardless of why, that's evil. It's the...

Just heard this one and have to steal it. What's it called when one banana eats another banana?

Yep. There's a pretty easy tell. How would you react if this were used against you or someone you love? Most of the excuses and moralizing and equivocations suddenly disappear when it's phrased like that. The acceptable circumstances of its use suddenly dwindle to extremely rare exceptions...

Yeah. "Always" was an overstatement. As a kid I loved toys, legos, action figures, and all that.

Right. So that gives us the idea of lesser and greater evil. It's worse, morally, to kill them...despite being space Nazis...than it is to control their minds. Granted. But it's still not good to control their minds. I'm not because it muddies the waters and equates things that are not the...

The topic came up in another thread and I thought it was interesting so here's a dedicated thread. Generally speaking most people agree that mind control is evil. Full stop. But there are exceptions. Especially in pop culture. One great example is the Jedi mind trick. Another is the DC...

Yeah. That’s true. Blast you!

An appeals court just said the tariffs are illegal. Here's to hoping that stands.

Hence the first line. It wasn't about you.

Yes, I have. I've commented on it several times. But you have to realize those are the very recent exceptions that prove the rule. One AP and what 2-3 adventures in Dragon Delves compared to the entire rest of the D&D corpus. Some of them have, yes. And that thinking has lead to 3-4 total...

As I mentioned up thread, I typically tore them apart for settings, set pieces, or villains. But boy the artwork was fantastic. I still have a shelf of those terrible MSH adventures, including Ragnarok and Roll. I still have a soft spot for Breeder Bombs, the X-Men adventure.

Okay. So they need to bin D&D. The core playloop of D&D is endless slaughter. That's a Bad Guy™ playstyle. The Good Guys™ don't endlessly murder anyone and everyone that gets in their way. And yet, that's the core of D&D...and has been since 1974. Anything that changes the original will do...

Not related to the obvious. Well, someone's dying on this hill. Better you than me.

Right. I agree with you. What I'm saying is that it's not up to you or me what other people do at their tables. Regardless of our views, we have no right to dictate to other people what they get to do in make believe land. Besides, regardless of whether it's in the game or not, people will use...

As others have mentioned, it depends on what style of campaign you want to have. The first two work well if you're going for an "expand the empire" kind of feel. The fortress or lair is established and built up. Well defended but not impregnable. The second two work well if you want an...

So I made a deal with the devil. No, not that devil. No, wait. Stop trying to guess. You've never heard of them. They live in the bottom of the well in the next town. Anyway, so I made this deal for all this power and the more things I murder the more power I get. And get this...no matter how I...

It's a perfect description of bad D&D combat.