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So, you create a new package of rules, but no actual new rules? How does that work - creating a new species can only rehash rules that already exist, somehow?

Well, "being heard" is no big thing. "Proving a point" so often comes in as, "Prove I am right and you are wrong," which becomes a problem.

Mod Note: Folks, I see a ton of disucssion of real-world people and their real-world religions. That's a problem. If you can't keep this to discussion of FANTASY religion, I'll have to close this thread.

I don't imagine that she's gotten to where she as being fragile. Okay, so a big pile of salad is backstage? You deal with it.

So... this is why I have an issue with attributing "good faith" and "bad faith" to people on the internet. We cannot, in internet posts in general, tell the difference between "bad faith" and "good faith, but subject to the very real and common human foibles, biases and presumptions".

Getting real statistics is hard, and costs significant money. EN World polling IS NOT a representative sample of gamers. Neither is personal experience. Which is not to say that individuals should not make personal choices of how to do things based on their experience. But they should be wary...

If all you're doing is discussing the game you're going to sell, then you are marketing your game. If you come and knock on my door, and you say, "Look, I'm a vacuum salesman, but I'm not trying to sell you this vacuum cleaner right now. But let's talk about this vacuum cleaner, build some...

The Cortex-based Marvel Super Heroic Roleplaying game can support that.

"We did, and you didn't listen then, either."

Both. Sometimes, I run a published campaign. Sometimes, I heavily modify a published campaign, so it is kind of half homebrew. Sometimes, I just homebrew.

So, this is leaving me thinking about what gatherings of people I've been to that I think qualify as a "convention", and why. I went to one gathering that was pretty clearly a smallish convention. A whole bunch of people in a hotel for a weekend, using hotel function space, playing a variety...

Mod Note: Could you please refrain from asserting that the only possible realities are the ones you ascribe to others? Because doing this is unlikely to resolve your argument - the typical result of this is to annoy people, and they'll probably dig into the dispute, rather than try to resolve...

It is... and it isn't. We've identified at least 60 meteorites on Earth that probably originated on Mars. Stuff gets around. Life finds a way.

And I am saying, "define similar". Like, there being potentially over a million different nucleic acids doesn't actually mean anything, if only around 20 easily come about through abiogenic means. Similarity is suggestive of shared ancestry only in the absence of other explanations for the...

Well, it already takes infinite enegy to create the universe we have, so that's not really a problem.

Again you seem to be confusing system and material. I already noted that the system would be different. Saying "DNA" is like saying "protein" or "carbohydrate". It doesn't give you specifics of structure or operation.

? DNA doesn't make base pairs. It is made of base pairs. So, now we get fiddly... Independently developing DNA to encode information would not be strange, because it has the right general characteristics, and tends to form self-organized states even when there is no life present. What is...

Yeah, a week later you want to try this? There is more in gaming and on Oerth than is imagined by your philosophy. The idea that games take skill is not owned by one particular game or playstyle. There is skilled play of Chess, and skilled play of Go, and they are different skills, and the...

He might count as contamination, yeah...

No it doesn't. The building blocks of DNA are commonly available throughout the cosmos. Having two independent sources use them would not be implausible.