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Perhaps sometimes but exceptions don't prove the rule. If I may use an idiom. For example, recently I've heard many people claim that THACO helped curb ridiculous monster AC progressions and that the older save system helped to balance casters a lot better than later editions. There is a lot...

Not really. That would imply that the older mechanic is superior.

Yeah, I know. That's why I said "some-what". Well, that's my point. If you worry about this question too much then you get a hodgepodge of old/new ideas that goes stale.

Conservative appeals to tradition will result in stagnation. With few exceptions, this column reads more and more like groundhog day. After two editions of some-what progressive formats, I seriously don't think an exercise in re-thinking the past is terribly useful.

I'm not sure anything is really essential. I disgree that you have to know LOTR, Star Trek or Star Wars to talk to geeks. I've never seen or read any of them and it hasn't hindered my ability to talk to geeks. Although, everyone should read or watch these because they are so damn good: (2004)...

It doesn't distort my view at all. I'm pretty disturbed at what I read online most of the time. If the online communities were really a good representation, I would have stopped gaming after my first session. The difference, as I see it, is that in person people are much more afraid of being...

0 out of 9. I guess, essentially, I'm not geek enough for wired. Le Guin reminded us that you don't have to fall into the gripes raised by Eric Tolle. I think that's pretty essential.

Interesting problem, my advice would be to just not care but that's because I can't articulate very well. When I find things annoying during a game, I sit back and engage in other aspects of the game. Like cracking jokes, interacting with the group between turns etc Basically, if the game is...

I don't think so. Stylized violence is usually enjoyable or entertaining because its so fake and absurd. It might desensitise in a way, to stylized violence but put any gamer or movie goer in a real fight and I doubt they'll feel any less distressed by the experience because they played lots...

That's the best part. Hang out, play some quidditch and then be back in time for a home cooked meal and hbo.

I hide it. I'm on the outside of my local gaming scene, I don't really socialise with other gamers and most people have a hard time grasping what TTRPGs are, so I just don't mention it. My girlfriend also keeps my gaming stuff in a chest but I've got a lot of Cthulhu Mythos paraphernalia on...

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter because a butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks sounds like an enjoyable past time.

:):):):), if the situation isn't creepy this thread definitely is. This board can reach some lows.

Yeah, my sexuality was called out when I mentioned Glee and Gossip Girl as well. Usually though, I get :):):):) for shows that I've never seen.

4E with elements of GW (randomized powers and 10 level limit) and The Shadow of Yesterday (Keys replace monster XP).

I haven't read the thread so this might have come up already... I tend to think of the far realm as something that feeds off of life to survive. Some mindflayers might be totally reliant on thralls as they their hedonistic lifestyle has erased all independence from their culture. Some might...

I've never used song lyrics for a character but I have used different musicians as models for characters. Every character I've ever played has had a bit of Keith Richards or Darby Crash in them.

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What's the scope of the forum? Is it specifically just Conan-esque and related low fantasy or it is open to all forms of Weird Fantasy?