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Proportionality is important if there are any minority opinions. For instance, in past years anti-incumbent voters have made up a significant bloc but because their votes are widely distributed, they have rarely counted much in the race. STV will allow these people to pool their votes more...

No. But I think the law is unnecessary. People in Canada lose votes over being dual citizens; I cannot imagine somebody being electable if they were not a citizen. I don't foresee a scenario where this would be allowed to happen. They are allowed to run usually but not allowed to vote. I think...

What is your opinion on materials produced for OOP games? Given that some of my favourite games fall into this category, I am, if anything especially friendly to such materials. I think for us soon-to-be middle-aged gamers, nostalgia is a big part of the gaming experience. How would you...

Indeed. So, how could you make the judging panel more representative of the gaming community than by holding a proportional representation election with candidacy and voting open to absolutely everybody? Are you really suggesting that restricting people's democratic choice of who represents...

How do you personally evaluate flavor text? My main criteria for flavour text will be how well it meshes with the mechanical aspects of the game and is directly relevant to the game. I am not interested in reading flavour text if it is simply a digression so that the writer can sharpen up his...

They were but they cost the earth. They ended up costing something like $3 per cube given what we paid. The sage darby lasted way longer than the other cheese. Did you include this in your calculations? Really? I thought the consequences were pretty similar. The main one is not being...

What award given by past ENnies do you disagree with most? Why? I've never given the matter any thought. And I have no incentive to giving it any now that we're in an election campaign, however small and lame it might be. Have you ever been an ENnies judge before? Nope.

Do you prefer Old World of Darkness or New World of Darkness? The new one is better. The gaping holes in the rules and the problematic social contract rendered OWoD virtually unplayable. Do you consider yourself a gamist, narrativist, or simulationist? (Fusangite already answered this one.)...

This year we are using a voting system different from the one we used for the previous 6 elections. You cannot infer anything about the system we have switched to by observing the system we have switched from. We switched from Multi-Member Plurality to STV. You are trying to use your ignorance...

Eyebeams, first of all, I am kind of surprised that you have not replied to my previous post on this thread. It seems to me that much of your reasoning is a result of conflating the categories of awarding organization and sponsoring organization. However, as to this point, I was specifically...

I have not regretted a single RPG purchase I have made in the past year. I rarely buy products without doing my homework before heading down to the store because I do not make much money at my current job. Of the 7 RPG products I have purchased in the past year, I have yet to regret a single...

I have done my best to follow eyebeams' arguments and I think that it comes down to a misinterpretation of Morrus's role. Morrus and E N Publishing have no role whatsoever in selecting judges or products. They function as sponsors for the awards, just as Gen Con does. To accuse Morrus of a...

How do you think price factors when evaluating a product? I am highly unlikely to factor price into my evaluation of a product unless a designer finds a way to offer stunningly good value for money through innovation. Otherwise, I do not plan to factor price in at all. Charging too high or too...

I'm not a fan of that and tend to disqualify them in my games. I think you do raise an important point, though: D&D already has a restore mechanic; why do we need more?

I think that the market would be smaller, first of all. Its demographic base would have aged even more than it has anyway. What we have to askis : what other sources of energy were there in the market in 2000 and what forces that exist now would have naturally arisen independent of the D20/OGL...

Remember the Scream movies? What happens if you kill the bankable female lead in the first scene? Where does the horror movie go then? It seems to me that, if you are the GM, crossing the line challenges you. How will you adapt the campaign once the players make this unexpected and irrevocable...

It sounds to me like what you really need is a little more information about why your players are dissatisfied. The great thing about GMing is that one can be a great GM with very different skills. Some GMs are weak on mechanics and fairness but make incredibly alive NPCs so that players don't...

Sorry I missed this post in my first reading, Umbran. This is a much more economical way of expressing some of what I was trying to convey, although I wouldn't say that there isn't a lot of predetermination in my campaigns -- it's just not at the literal, event-based level. In my current...

Chalk me up as another person not agreeing with the article's definitions entirely. And even largely accepting the article's definitions, I don't agree with the author's conclusions. It seems to me that mysteries have many answers whereas puzzles have one. The more answers a question has, the...

The PCs are the protagonists in the story. How can you tell? Because they are in every major scene in the story. If someone else is, then they too are a main character. In my view, a balanced game is one in which the PCs are the main characters. As a DM, I get more than enough enjoyment...