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The vague physical/legal/moral stance of the statement is a feature, not a bug.

Ever? Right, so let us be specific, hm, and see the failure? "Those who do not dump toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water are in no position to tell those who do, that it cannot be done."

Real space combat, or space combat where we have no concerns about fuel/weight/delta-v? In the real world, armor is too heavy, and your winning projectiles will be lug nuts moving at orbital speeds...

Yes. The minions were working for Gastlagast the Devil-Giant, who resides at the Department of Motor Vehicles. I am not, in this, representing a culture of people being overrun by colonizers.

In my example, I presented minions as specific individuals, working for an individual at an implied governmental bureaucracy. You gotta stretch like Reed Richards to position my example to be colonialist. It is perhaps slightly comically anti-government. Moral implications cannot be assessed...

One wonders where you think one's knuckles are....

Look, last session the kobold delivered Gastlagast's insult, and the final moment of the evening was Cronut popping the kobold's head like a grape, bellowing, "Enough banter! I'm going down to the DMV tomorrow to wring an apology from that devil-spawn!" I have a week to put together a cool...

I don't think I've spoken about minion mechanics in this thread before. I could see a gamist perspective on them. But, for me, that would be in the sense of making game align with overall desired narrative feel of the scene. The time when you use an ogre-minion is the moment when Cronut the...

Spoken like someone who doesn't play dice-pool based games much. Edit to add: you can't even cleanly roll damage for a fireball or lightning bolt with only 3-4 standard polyhedral sets.

Only if your goal is to strictly simulate the physicality of the ogre (and other monsters). If you are trying to represent the narrative role of the ogre, then it can have different representations depending on the narrative state in which you encounter it. I suggest to you that the moment...

So, base-12 for money because 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 which is really handy when you may be making change by physically cutting coins into bits... But that does bring up the thought that RPGs are missing out on that goodness - our systems are so big on "make number big" that I...

I know. That was the area of research of my department chairman in grad school. Which sounds great.. until you try to figure out who is to be held responsible when they get it wrong....

Cypher system can do it, but cinematic action isn't its strong suit. Moreover, I don't know of a published or common hack that specifically sets you up for the genre - most of them lean a little more fantastical. Same thing with Cortex Prime. Cortex can do a fine heist genre (see the out of...

Wow. Bad example. Like, there are about two mass shootings in the US each day. So, basically, you're asking me if I'm so sanguine with an AI getting an idea that HUNDREDS of humans do each year already. I suggest that worrying about one AI, vs 700+ humans, would be a mistaken priority.

I mean, it is like saying, "I told it to make lunch, left out bread and cold cuts on the counter in plain view, and it came up with a sandwich." When you set up a perfect scenario, and ask it to find a scenario, one should not be surprised that it finds the one you specifically set up for it...

If folks are going to bring up Wushu, then Feng Shui is also a contender.

I can't say I really care that much. There's tons of way a character can go without keying off one suspension from duty as a central element.

I think you are overstating your case a bit. In North America alone, researchers found that the indigenous people had no less than 307 numbering systems. Only about a third of those were base 10. Meanwhile, you call it rare, but nearly a quarter of the systems were base 2. Meanwhile, you say...

The question is whether that is ESSENTIAL to an episode of character development for her or not. As in: can they absolutely not do development for her if she isn't suspended, or something? Not "would it have been cool", but "is it necessary. If not, the complication it imposes on the...

People can be super-optimistic about AI with anything, and that's part of the problem - the optimism is not directly linked to the nature of the technology. As compared to being optimistic about, say, mRNA tech, which actually can be part of a medical revolution, because it is at least a...