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I'll tell you what. :) Let's assume the narrative is consistent. The Gamist would like the world to "make sense" in order for actions to be meanginful. If this is achieved, Gamism converges with Simulationism, as the world perfectly represents the sort of world in which Gamist agendas are...

I posit that such disagreements are not about agendas, but about the perceived meaning of the text. One example, "pickpocketing the King is cool" versus "pickpocketing the King is stupid." In this case I would expect double vision; there are several distinct priorities which make the action...

The question is, What is the substance of their agreement? What is the worth of their idea? When an in-group comes to believe that their limited perspective represents the justification of an issue, it's called dominant privilege. In this case, the impression generated is that this person and...

These "best shows," are they live streaming videos of adventure baths, or what?

From before birth, really. Even in utero, people ascribe different characteristics to jiggling fetuses based on their beliefs as to the future child's gender. Presumably, even a blastosphere can be a princess, or Daddy's Little Man.

Something has occured in the last couple of posts that is stretching the terms of the debate. What I was saying was that tolerated behavior can lead to that behavior actually being accepted and justified. I wasn't using "acceptable" as a euphemism for moral or legal.

So where do you stand on the dehumanizing destruction of self-esteem in little girls? Absolutely acceptable, or not acceptable? We are not arguing about the abstract right to say things which might be offensive; I am a strong proponent of free speech. I am specifically saying this guy makes...

What the poo-poo-pa-doo??? Ya know, I just checked the calendar and it's not April 1st, so I guess this must be real. Yikes. At least we got one good thing out of this: a striking and easily understood example of the intimate connection between casual, polite -isms and the nastier kind, as both...

Lone Star Comics is alive and well in Mesquite. They carry a good games selection, have table space, and so forth.

It's sort of a FATE-y thing, with lots of Marvel Superheroes tropes folded in, like power categories, different damage types, and of course, the named levels sandwiched into more generic suggestions (Feeble, Poor, Typical, Good, anyone?). It's definitely more like the original Marvel...

This is basically my feeling.

3.5 has the advantage when you at a shortsword versus a bastard sword. But if you compare a dagger to a short sword, or a hand axe to a battle axe, a spear to a long spear, 3.0's system looks a little better. I think a spear is probably going to be the thinnest, lightest thing for its length it...

It's not even clear it's realistic. Is there actually such a thing as a Small rapier, or a Large greatsword?

3.5 handles the more usual cases better, and results in more consistent damage. It also avoided the 3.0 nomenclature, which had weapons at a different scale than creatures or objects. OTOH, the 3.0 approach was better for loot, better reflected a world where most player races were similar in...

The local comics store here has a big TV that promos a bunch of board game stuff all do. The videos are pretty cool.

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Thoughts on character creation: Random generation is fun, but sometimes is surprisingly hard. I just rolled up a Transformed guy with Strength 6, Animation, Force Field, and Telepathy. What do these things have in common? ... I decided he was possessed by out-of-phase aliens. Equipment... not...

Just posting some musings after re-reading it after having purchased it a couple of months ago. Very nice and lite implementation of Fate. Very cool. Quirky art style. Cool. Style agnostic, although leaning toward a Silver Age funnybook aesthetic. Would work fine for modern animated DC or...

Most my campaigns start with a rough sketch of about the nearest 300 miles. It usually serves. I don't see a problem with using the Faerun maps, major geographic divisions, and so forth, just as I said, it wouldn't be my inclination. If I had more of an emotional attachment to a setting I...

For Star Wars, I'm a stickler for both trilogies canon, but I treat the EU far less reverently. Otherwise, it wouldn't be Star Wars. In practice, I wouldn't fun a Faerun campaign. If I were going to use a published setting, I would want to juice all I could out of it, including all the...