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Wiring the Enterprise with landlines not doing it for you?

It's Carol Kane. Quips and comedy are what she does.

Eh, the trope is that if you run into your clone, you're eventually going to try to kill the other you, so no thanks.

As previously noted, I can see the point for D&D, but only because that game holds an absolutely unique position in the market that makes some forms of experimentation or innovation difficult to do well. But, that doesn't hold for any other game, and similarity to D&D should not be considered...

In D&D, perhaps. In general, there's nothing wrong with a designer building certain behaviors for GMs, players, or both, in rules. It would allow curating a game to provide a specific experience. If you don't like that experience, you just don't buy that game.

Did you mean, "I never said there was."? Because otherwise, this is not a sensible response. Edit: You know what? Never mind. This will take longer to weed through than it is worth.

That's one case. I am responding to it as a general statement, because I don't see how this generalizes. There is nothing that prevents a new species definition from containing new rules.

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.