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Oh, I know they're real. Not my thing, but real. I was commenting on the grammatical error in the headline. :LOL:

I am not seeing a line through Snarf's name as I write this post. I'm on Firefox, in case it turns out to be about what browser.

There are definitely times it seems like an extensive troll job.

What am I supposed to put inside it, isn't the recipe already set? Oh, did the headline writer want me to give in to the sandwich? They should have said so.

I'm really not arguing, here, but I kinda gotta wonder which would be "aging worse," for (post-)apocalyptic or dystopian fiction: society starts to look like the fiction, or society looks as though the fiction is impossible (or at least implausible)? I can see either answer, honestly.

I'd eat that, but the mushrooms are entirely surplus to my own needs, there.

I'd expect the prosecutors to be talking about defendants flouting the conditions of their bail, not the defense attorneys. Though I might be failing to grok some context, here.

My wife read this one recently. Alas, I think it had to go back to the library, but I can always find it and check it out myself.

My experience is that the trick is to stop arguing without saying you're stopping arguing. Stop responding.

At this point, my preferred approaches to series of novels are A) read a shortish series once it's all published and B) read a longish series in whatever order I find the books, because the novels stand alone just fine. (Longer series that don't stand alone, I don't read. And 'Salem's Lot is a...

As I said, I don't have any strong delusions about my writing, but I think the time I spent recording audiobooks--listening to other people's writing, in still other people's literal voices--shaped my writing, and at least improved my ear for dialogue. (He's right about dialogue tags, or...

Scalzi might--or might not--hear his prose in his head as he composes it. Some writers do, some don't--I mostly do, but I don't claim it means my prose is anything special. It's plausible that I hear my prose in my head because I spent so much time listening to people read other writers' prose...

We recorded several of the earlier novels in that series at the audiobook studio I worked at. Uh ... There were some verbal tics in the novels that practically leapt off the pages when narrated. I know what he was trying to do but I can't help laughing. I have a sneaking suspicion audiobooks...

Not even this site: The obvious response is more insulting than I care to be, so I'll just let what you said like there like a turn on the sidewalk.

Apparently there were enough people finding alternative lubricants that the rules now specify that graphite is the only permissible one.

Yeah, I'm happy the players are playing well--I actually plan and run in the expectation they will--but it's always a little bummer when something has the excitement and tension pulled out of it prematurely.

And because things are asymmetrical, it's much less of a "fun in play" problem if a monster loses a turn or three--the GM will still have things to do, and will still be playing. This isn't an argument so much as an expansion on your point/s. (Yes, some GMs sometimes get frustrated when their...

Short hop? It's barely a big step. :LOL:

I think the context will matter for both losing a turn and losing a character, as far as whether it's interesting or suck.

I don't disagree that the badness of turn loss is being overemphasized, but as you seem to recognize it does suck--especially if it's recurring or extended, and (practically) unavoidable.