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Jaron is specialized or technical language used by a particular group. Aside from roleplaying situations, how often do you tell someone to roll 12d8 and add the sum?

This absolutely cracked me up. I don't think I've heard anyone refer to a horror game as liminal, so I'm not hitting the right places apparently, but if I ever see it your definition is the first that will spring to mind.

Just this last weekend I had to roll 12d8 to get the damage for a dragon's breath weapon. I'm not sure many dice one needs to be a dice queen. Clearly I don't have enough dice for my own personal needs. Truthfully, I haven't heard any of the terms you listed. Like ever. The world is just...

Good luck. I expect any effort to eliminate jargon be about as effective as preventing euphemism treadmills or semantic change. At some point you're just fighting language itself.

When I still cared about academia, when I would listen to someone speaking about philosophy they would typically define what they meant when using a term. But then even when people here define what they mean when using a particular word, there's always pushback from someone else who says they...

This one used to rankle men whenever I'd hear something referred to as problematic without being told what exactly the problematic part was. It's as if I was supposed to magically know.

Sometimes on Reddit I see people post about a TTRPG in a thread that's about CRPG and vice versa. When it comes to Cyberpunk, since the release of the video game Cyberpunk 2077, in some threads there can be confusion over which version of the game is being discussed. Johnny's version of the...

There's a Black Dragon Inn in Greyhawk!

It wouldn't have occurred to me to make a sword out of a horn! Nice idea.

My wife insisted I pick up and paint the WizKids Marid mini. She doesn't play D&D and doesn't know what a Marid is. She just thought it looked cool.

In my last session, the player characters defeated an adult black dragon and it was a lot of fun. At the end of our session, I told them I'd figure out something fun to do with the corpse. And by fun, I mean let's make some magic items. So think of what parts of the dragon you might use to...

They killed a black dragon!

A lot of us never really gave the supply chain a second thought until it was disrupted during Covid. Even now, many of us don't fully appreciate just how complicated and sophisticated the process of producing and getting the product into the hands of customers really is.

Heck, too many editions can cause some confusion among customers. Imagine trying to explain to grandma the difference between Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia, or Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition so she knows what to get you for Christmas. Or...

I was just thinking how out of depth I am on this. As someone who doesn't run a business, someone who is involved in an industry that doesn't deal with tangible goods that are sold, I am completely unaware of the intricacies of relationships and contracts between a producer and a vendor who...

One of the reasons westerns probably remained in production for so long is because the infrastructure was there. What I mean by that is you had western movie sets, costumes, props, stuntpersons, horse experts, and everything else you needed to shoot a western right there just waiting to go...

It is a problem. It's probably why comic publishers like Marvel and DC need to reboot every once in a while. You get to the point where you have a mentally unstable, gut-toting septuagenarian veteran of a war that ended 50 years ago running around looking like a dude in his late 30s or early...

I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't seen Deathstalker in more than 40 years and I've never forgotten it. I forgot all the sexual assault, but I sure remember the violence and nudity. Among the many cheesy fantasy movies we got in the 80s, it certainly stands out. I stand by my...

Here's the thing. Someone is always going to complain, so you can't just sit and do nothing out of fear. Someone would probably complain if you did nothing. Since the first Vampire game was published in 1991, the World of Darkness has always been connected to the real world. It incorporates...

At least the armor is realistic.