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And people studying wildlife, forests, astronomy, not to mention anything related to humans. The idea that if data isn't perfect it's useless, is just nonsense. The quality of the data varies of course. It's not a scientific paper, it's a newspaper article, about a hobby. It would be nice to...

Mind blowing, really, considering the level of investment compared to something like watching TV. To think that the number of D&D players could rival the number of people watching the most popular and influential shows! :) This hobby is dying in the most peculiar way.

What exactly is your goal here? Edition warring, or you just want to have a bunch of people agree with you, what are you looking for? If you don't like 6-8 encounters/adventuring day, but still want to run 5e good news, you don't need to run 6-8 encounters/adventuring day. Even without any...

I took it not as her saying orgies are weird, rather, you might tell people to keep an open mind when inviting them to a weird one. :p

The video is Age restricted at the request of uploader (at least now) and Welch apologizes in the comments. Seems pretty mild honestly but everyone has different buttons.

Maybe ideal for MYSELF and people I play with, when playing a particular type of D&D like game, what part of IME don't you get? The "without exception" part you are just making up, but even if I said that I have found that IME (as inextensive and inadequate as that might be) Totm works better...

That's right; Sharing one's own experiences, and saying there is no objective "right way" or "right tool for the job" = Onetruewayism :confused: Saying there are "right tools" for the job, telling people their preferred tool should only be used when other tools are unavailable, telling people...

For me personally and many I play with, lack of specific measurements and the more abstract system in 13th Age ended up more or less a deal breaker on it's own. It was not what we expected because we have had good success with similar systems in other types of games like Fate, but for the types...

No. I was responding to someone's post about their experience and opinion with my own experience, because I find it interesting that we were finding the similar things in opposite techniques. I wasn't telling them they should use Totm because it's the right tool for the job or for any other...

What about my posts makes you think I need help running a game with mini's? I didn't say anything about having difficulties running such games myself, if it's the "IME" that through you off I was referring to games I have played in or observed. Wow, nothing like being told "You're doing it...

After years with the different styles and types of games, I have come up with a pretty solid view of what myself and many players I have observed get out of "worldbuilding" that we can't get anywhere else (as opposed to all of the things it can be used for that can also be achieved in other...

I'm not saying it isn't entirely doable, we use all sorts of methods, Alea tools are pretty cool. What I'm saying is even something as simple as one person on a balcony, another person underneath them, ends up being much less common in mini's and mat only games. I don't think I have ever seen a...

It's funny, but one of my issues with strictly map and minis play is that GMs often shy away from or even shut down cool ideas because they don't want to have to deal with representing it. Anything with a 3d component, even as simple as someone standing under someone else on a balcony is likely...

I think I understand where you are coming from in some respects. I generally find discussion of planar cosmology and such to be tedious. Hearing other people discuss the details and differences between World Axis and Great Wheel, different versions of the Great Wheel , even in some cases how one...

Methinks you are tilting at windmills a bit here. There are all kinds of materials out there for all kinds of RPGs and while D&D does get looked down on a lot in some circles, there is exceedingly little in way of "that shouldn't even exist" or even "that type of game is objectively bad"...

I could quibble with some details here but we pretty much agree. The main point is that "stories" as pemerton put it, are being told by the GM in either case, not only in the GM-worldbuilding situation. The stories can be different (they don't need to be) but the real difference is the...

Only going to address BW specifically because I have the same book in front of me ATM, but there is a fair amount of GM discretion in narrating the outcome of success (more-so with failures). The example given under success for instance; It's probably also worth mentioning (since I blew the...

Stop railroading this discussion! I can't really help but feel this whole thread was a bit of a bait and switch though, honestly. I entered it thinking it was about discussing an important aspect of ttrpgs, the OT and OP asked some reasonable questions. The OP didn't actually want hear any...

Say I don't like broccoli, and I don't like being forcefed, and I think twinkies are unhealthy (bad), and I don't like how food can make me fat. That doesn't mean food is bad, or even that I don't like food. It makes a lot more sense to me to talk about the actual things I don't like rather than...