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I would not make such an assumption. I have seen too many GMs (including myself) have to pause an think about the answer to a player's question of, "Is there X in the room?" It says to me that, broadly, we leave a great many details unconsidered. It's a tavern, there are tables and chairs...

Could you please NOT directly quote inappropriate language? Because now I have to edit it out twice, which is annoying.

Well, iirc, Carl is wearing the archetype boxer shorts with hearts on them, which might be hard to find in swimwear. Tights under the boxers will handle anatomy and temperature issues. Speedos or some snug gym shorts underneath would protect modesty as well.

There are these other people at the table, called.players, and they frequently feel no need to be restricted to what the GM plans. One of the foremost reasons some GMs give so much detail is that they abhor players adding material, so they must include everything the players might interact...

To nitpick a bit, what gets released on a self-publishing platform, what gets bought in the broader market, and what gets played are three very different things that are not proxies for each other. Which means we need to be careful - seeing a ton of rules-light games for sale doesn't tell us...

This is excellent advice. Also hals with the fact that boxers can sometimes... hang in an awkwardly revealing way, shall we say? Not for the OP's costumes, and not cheap, but for Victorian and Wild West costuming, it is hard to beat Historical Emporium. This is not "costume grade" stuff, but...

Mod note: Um, Micah? Please note that we have a separate forum for Level Up, and another for D&D Variants. So, while you cam mention them, please realize that you should not dominate discussion with them here.

You said you weren't buying it. How, on this good green Earth, do you buy that which isn't for sale? Which is to say, there is a sort of implied relationship in that ohrasing, that those with differing opinions are supposed to or are trying to "sell you" on their ideas. I am pushing back on...

Yes, but the statistics suck. There are only relative handful of people here, and we self-select for particular discussions. Listening to us talk doesn't tell you anything about the greater gaming world. Forgetting that is a good way to come to very incorrect conclusions, and getting into a...

No single thing for all games. I come to different tables for different things.

We aren't selling. We are offering our own thoughts, FOR FREE. Take 'em, or not, no skin off our noses.

It isn't really about his family, though. It is about the entire species that is going to die if he doesn't return. And, if he's going to do that, he ought to stick around and teach the Great Link that not all "solids" are a-holes, and that the Founders were largely the architects of their...

Mod Note: Hey there. Retroactively changing the discussion because you didn't think of some things others might, and insulting people in the process, looks a lot like you want to get removed from the discussion you started. All in all - starting a thread doesn't mean you own it, or get to...

Interestingly, Odo does tell his real family to take a hike, what with them being racist despots out for galactic domination and among the main villains of the series. Mora was found family, and still sucked. :p

I want to add - the episode with Dr. Mora is the worst thing that show ever produced. Saying Mora wasn't "particularly gentle about it" is a polite understatement. Mora used painful electric shocks on infant Odo to get him to do things - if you did that to your kid on Earth, we'd call that...

Well, there's a major question about how much sense money actually makes in the real world, too. Money is a matter of consensual reality, not some objective measures of value.

And, by the way, in speaking about the whole pendulum swing thing... Fate Core (and Fate Accelerated, which hasn't been part of the discussion) came out in 2013, and Fate in general is even older.

A lot of the difference is explication, explanation, and examples. F'rex, The Fate Core rules takes 40 pages to talk about skills and stunts, giving a paragraph about each skill, examples of how each skill might be used with each of the four basic game actions, and providing the full text of 3...

Um, careful there. First, that's 310 digest pages, instead of the more common 8"x10" RPG rulebook pages. More importantly, Fate Condensed is mechanically pretty much the same, and comes in at only 60 pages. Which is to say, a whole lot of that 310 pages isn't core mechanical complexity.

Started on Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman. I expected monsters getting slaughtered. I didn't expect Dinniman to put the depth to the ethics and feelings around it.