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Mod note: I am pretty sure you know that's not actually what was said, but the insulting stinger too good to pass up. I am here to make it clear that, for you, this was not good. This was bad, and resisting the urge would have been better. Because now you are getting the hairy eyeball from a...

Mod note: So, this looks like an intentional attempt to insult folks who disagree with your preferences, while perhaps clinging to a shred of plausible deniability. If you want to continue in this discussion, stepping back from the insults would be a good idea.

Mod note: Hey, folks. Less Pentagon, more pentacles - this is a discussion of D&D weapons, not modern warfare.

Hardly. At the moment, AI doesn't even understand consequences, much less have moral compunction against them.

Mod Note: Folks should consider exactly how vehement they want to make their replies in this thread, as some of you are getting very close to making things personal or otherwise actionable.

No, you can compare Team PC to Team Challenges Set by GM. That is the basic question of the tactical game - do the PCs beat the challenges or not?

There is no need to conflate, "play that focuses on use of a set of skills" and "players are in competition over which of them is better at those skills". Indeed, when you get a bunch of people together to play a pickup game of basketball, the main score we are concerned with is between...

Which reminds me - this whole analysis discards the Many Worlds interpretation, in which no timeline ever needs to be (or can be) eliminated at all...

Well, you don't pay opportunity cost to the person who provides the game. So it really isn't relevant to the discussion thus far. Edit to add : Whoops. Didn't see this had been locked. Sorry.

Actually, that doesn't logically follow. For this to be certain, logically, two things are required: 1) Not just that time travel is possible, but that it can be attempted infinite times. 2) A timeline in which it never happened or could happen is actually possible.

The ones with ads in them are not actually free-to-play. You pay by allowing yourself to be exposed to ads. Actually free-to-play games are either actually gifts, data-mining opportunities, or are loss-leading marketing ploys hoping that you'll pay them at some point. Pokemon GO, for example...

Hr. I'm not sure that logic works as well as the article suggests. It says, "But maybe the biggest paradox of all is also the simplest one: If time travel were possible, wouldn’t we encounter these temporal tourists all the time?" But, no! That's not a paradox! Paradoxes are things that...

If you mostly play with strangers at conventions or your FLGS, I suppose this can be an issue. If you play with folks you know... the trust part should not just be for the GM. If you can't trust your players to not try to abuse things, why are they at your table?

I don't find that how special the characters are, or aren't, is in and of itself a concern for me. I more care that the level of special-ness is well-chosen to match the genre of the game.

And only for some very generous definitions of the word, "soon." The new manufacturing capacity would have to be developed first. Then we hit the meta-issue of the limits on the capacity to build capacity. Like, if I want to print more books in the US, I need to stand up a printing...

I don't know where you are going with this. Mastering any skill takes time, sure. But playing with a focus on that skill does not require one attain mastery first. Or, maybe you misunderstood me previously - I said that it is hard to play with focus on resource management with infrequent...

Mod Note: Hey, cut it out with the hyperbolic attitude, please and thanks.

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According to Merriam-Webster: Jerry-built means “built cheaply and unsubstantially.” Jerry-rigged means “organized or constructed in a crude or improvised manner.” Jury-rigged means “constructed or arranged in a makeshift fashion.” Where "jury-rigged" is the oldest such construction, and was...