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I wouldn't have listed any of those as my "ideal monk fights" before seeing any of them for the first time, here. I'm not convinced any of them is particularly like what either of the players who had monk PCs in my games had in mind what their characters looked like in action; and if I were to...

Yeah, there's that. In my case it's that I spent so much with that as work that I can't do it for fun. I have similar problems with podcasts, and I've never spent any time making those--but just listening to someone talk in my headphones ... it needs to be something I'm really interested in.

I worked recording them. I cannot listen to them for pleasure. It's a me thing, and my own mental block--it's not a judgment on them or the people who listen to them.

The difference between the experience of free-writing a novel is, to me, very like the experience of GMing a TRPG when there's no pre-planned series of events. I presume you would say that the TRPG session is not a story--and I mostly agree--but could session notes be one? How much editing, how...

It appears as though you require "story" to be pre-planned, That'd seem to imply that a free-written novel wouldn't meet your definition of "story.' I'm not saying you're wrong, exactly--this is (or would be) very much an edge-case, and just about all positions have edge-cases that make them...

Yeah, there are almost certainly feedback loops going on. My sense is that the more the players know the game is focused on their characters's goals and actions and desires and priorities and needs, the less they try to screw around with the GM (which usually carries at least a whiff of...

I had a player who wanted to try to push edge-case things. Eventually we came to the understanding that rulings were more likely to go his way if he wasn't trying to extract them in the moment, that he didn't need to surprise me to surprise his opponents. I've also come to a conclusion that's...

If I were running a game for my friends with advanced degrees in things like particle astrophysics or developmental neurobiology or computational theoretical physical chemistry, we might have to work out what I needed to do, worldwise, to support their suspension of disbelief. (In the Fantasy...

Alas, that sort of heightened language simply does not convey to film. Also alas, it's fallen severely out of fashion.

I would have preferred to claw my way into middle management. :LOL:

I don't think I am. I mean, it wasn't a life-goal or anything. We were a federal contractor and the agency we contracted with yanked the work out from under us.

Mine is forced retirement. I can't recommend the "forced" part.

There was a point in my life when I would read more than one book at a time. At this point I think they'd all have to be non-narrative nonfiction for me to do that. Part of how many days a book will take me to read is how many hours per day I'll give it; that's a large part of what I'll have to...

I read a book every night I'm not ... doing something else (gaming, vacation, some other social thing ...). My wife reads more ... constantly than I do, and not all that much slower (and she just figured out that she can knit and read at the same time, more slowly at both, so long as the...

Or, uh, get ready to bounce off of the meta ... :LOL:

What matters is that the people at the table are able to anticipate how the world will behave. At some tables, in some games, that will be mostly genre logic; that's not necessarily universal (though I think I agree it's more common than a lot of people realize).

I don't think we're disagreeing much, just maybe talking from different angles? The game world needs to be comprehensible and consistent so the people at the TRPG table can make reasonable decisions based on their understanding of it, I think we agree on that? So for example, if at one table...

I was getting more at the idea that whoever's establishing fictional things needs to consider how what they're establishing changes the past (or how it looks). This pretty obviously more likely to be a problem for permanent things than for transient ones.

I think that we at the table care about the game world conforming to reality mainly so as to make it comprehensible to the people at the table. I think that what that means will probably vary table-to-table, both as a matter of knowledge and as a matter of ability to willingly suspend disbelief...

I did. It's not as much reading as I used to do (I'm sure there's at least one year in the 1990s when I read at least 500 books) but given that I more or less wasn't reading for pleasure at all, a little more than a year ago, I'm happy to be reading as much as I am. Eventually I'll start doing...