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Sure. "Half past" as a short reference to 30 minutes past the hour when which hour has already been established is both American and British English. It's the specific construction "half [number of hour]" which I don't see/hear used by Americans. Always by Brits or Irish. Not sure about but...

This one is a distinct Britishism to my eyes.

This. "Quarter of" and "quarter to" are both 15 minutes before the specified hour. A quarter past is 15 minutes after the hour.

Hyperborea, really? That's incredible to me. Right up front that one makes substantial changes to races and classes to better suit its own setting and to fix/replace multiclassing (respectively), which is the furthest thing from trying to be purist about Gary's vision or the mechanics coming...

Aesthetics and nostalgia, plus this: I think there's a lot of truth here. 2E tried to be all things to all DMs, and encompasses some contradictory approaches and a whole mess of supplements. When I think back to playing 2E the Complete books are absolutely part of that, but which ones is very...

My cold came back, so I've been staying out of the gym and just doing PT exercises at home. :/ Hopefully I can get over this frickin' virus this week and get back to lifting.

Watched it last night with my brother, and overall was disappointed. I enjoyed Falcon and Winter Soldier, though I felt like it made a couple of significant missteps, and with the CA2: Winter Soldier spy vibes this one gave off a bit of, I had hopes it would follow in that one's footsteps, as...

I'm not sure that would have even been necessary if they: 1. Got rid of the factoring agreement, which took 20% off the top and hobbled their ability to respond in real time to sales data. 2. Had functioning cost and profitability data for products. It's true that some boxed sets were sold...

How does this one Umbran suggested grab you?

No, I totally get that. But getting into those three categories like you started to there I think is a digression, not directly germane to what this particular discussion is about. Those are stances, attitudes, agendas. Assume for a moment that my theory is correct- Reynard didn't mean...

It's always helpful to have shared understanding, but I think diverging off into GNS or GDS theory would be a bit of a tangent from the thread. I think the OP was using the word "narrative" in its colloquial meaning rather than the specific theoretical jargon of either one of those theories.

Are you thinking it would have helped for the OP to have linked to the discussion of Daggerheart Hope and Fear mechanics for more direct context?

Well, it seems to be a bit more complex than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNS_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_model I think for the purposes of this particular discussion Reynard is talking about a "narrative mechanic" as being a rule which explicitly enables and...

Yes, I've seen Flight of the Conchords (in concert as well, but I mean the TV show), so I'm aware of the perfidy and oppression of the Aussies toward your people. ;)

It's become increasingly common as a meme over the past decade or so, at least. Despite D&D in the past 25 years having no core fumble rules (even though critical hits are official in every WotC edition), and skill checks at no point having had either fumble or critical rules, players...

Well, it was up and then down, remember. They produced a ton of gaming stuff and were the biggest publisher of fantasy/SF in the country for a while. They absolutely failed at cost containment, though, and the factoring agreement with the bank cutting 20% off their revenue handicapped them...

20% off certainly still does today, even if the book is $50 or whatever!

The reason the Englishman who created the poll made it that way was because he didn't remember ever hearing it before, so assumed it must be foreign and his leading guess was that it was American.

I am not a big actual play consumer, but I did make it all the way through the first Adventure Zone campaign (the Balance arc). One observation I remember having was that they dropped close adherence to D&D rules PDQ and by the end of the campaign weren't really even using them at all...

You mean like I noted in the paragraph above the one you quoted? ;) Edit: I did some digging into archived online department store catalogs a few years ago during a related discussion, and confirmed the Sears annual Christmas Wishbook kept TSR stuff until 1984, but it looks like Penneys and...