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It's straightforward, isn't super crunchy, does not involve buckets of dice, and really shines in settings meant to be about the interaction between the characters rather than mechanical actions on the game world. That is, if the focus of play is on the characters' interactions and personal...

What religions adopt the Anglo-American criminal burden of proof as an obligation? And it’s untrue that “basic human decency” means adopting this criminal burden of proof for all our interactions and decisions. Nobody does this on the regular. It’s a fake moral standard that gets whipped out...

Sure. Which is something that gets a little lost in the arguments about what standards "courts of law" have. Urging innocent until proven guilty as a standard for deciding "Should we believe this negative thing about a person?" is indulging in the pretense that we are choosing a neutral...

I don't think you're bad at running it or that they came into the situation in bad faith - it is most likely a mismatch between what they thought they wanted and how it played out. They're trying to be nice and push through it, but that's not fun for anybody. This is definitely the kind of...

This is where I would start to ask questions. When they say they wanted to play a mystery/story-based game, exactly what were they envisioning? It sounds like they were anticipating a sort of F20 Scooby-Doo - where there was an initial plot to unravel and then they went straight to confronting...

This. Law and Chaos were taken straight from the Melniboné novels, where they are opposed, literal cosmic forces. Neither one is "good" or "evil", and really they're portrayed as leaning evil/destructive because Moorcock was doing grimdark before grimdark was the new hotness. On playing evil...

Yes, the principle is - at best - flawed. Even when used in good faith, it is a rhetorical sleight-of-hand, appropriating the very high standard necessary to procure a criminal conviction and demanding that we should not believe a thing to be true unless that standard is met. "Innocent until...

You mean like Masks, which not only takes the PbtA engine and runs with its strengths, but does so in a popular genre (superheroes) that still manages to work the 'relationship moves' mechanics in a less R-rated way?

TL;DR - an anonymous person claiming to be a Paizo employee made a vague Reddit post and claimed some of Price's allegations were false, then ignored multiple requests to clarify which.

1) We're not a jury; this isn't a courtroom where we are weighing whether to issue criminal or financial penalties to Paizo. The idea that we are not allowed to have opinions on things others tell us until a jury or administrative body has issued a formal ruling on their claims is ridiculous...

Am I understanding this correctly: we can't give any credence to complaints about a workplace unless and until the complaining employees have won a civil lawsuit against their employer, or a regulatory agency has successfully issued a citation against it?

Again, the issue with Ernie’s experience is not its accuracy - many of us went through the same thing. It’s that he is using it as a justification and excuse for his behavior now, as an adult. The “incel” comments are not about his veracity, they’re about his sense (even as an adult) that he was...

Who is "acting like Ernie's story is so rare"? EDIT: I see that you addressed this in a different comment, but people are not really acting as if Ernie being bullied as a young nerd was "rare" or that gaming was always cool. To the extent anyone is sneering, it's at Ernie's attempt to point to...

I'm confused by the contradicting statements here. If gaming is for all the nerds, why sneer at "Geek Chic" or "models looking" gamers? Is the table only welcoming for people whose CHA is below a certain cutoff, or who have played for a particular number of years? I'm also puzzled in that you...

Dog Eat Dog does this explicitly: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198050/Dog-Eat-Dog

It's also extremely insulting towards people on the autism spectrum, as it pretends that they are inherently unable to speak or act decently towards others, and can never learn common decency. Interestingly, you never see the people waving this flag to excuse harassers / jerks / creeps give a...

Ah, but you see, to a bully and their admirers, there is no greater injustice in the world than one of their victims hitting them back. The bully's speech is just 'edgy' or 'being provocative' or 'telling it like it is'. The victim's assigned role is, well, to be the victim; to absorb the abuse...

Execution? That is a new definition of 'receiving public criticism for public statements' of which I was previously unaware.

We could also grant him the respect of acknowledging he is a grown adult who is making decisions about how to behave, and is choosing to try and bully others rather than showing empathy. Reading tea leaves to find reasons that he just can't help his poor self because he was bullied as a kid is...

Possibly it was meant to be one of those things where the eventual curator would be paid peanuts but offered a free apartment.