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Having spent two decades or more in the sobriety community, my perspective is that I'm not convinced there's a 'real' person. There's the person at their lowest; the person at their highest; the person where there are no consequences; the person where there are plenty of consequences; the person...

We've been playing an ongoing campaign weekly since the book came out. Setting-wise, the world is wildly imaginative, exciting, and IMO the primary draw of the game. It's also loose enough in interpretation that you can readily make it your own -- if your group wants the cactus-people to be...

As usual: please list out the settings that do not qualify (because they are covered in the video). Do not expect everyone to watch a separate video to answer your question. That said, consider Taladas -- the world of Dragonlance, but an alternate continent with a lava-filled lake in the...

Chef being a IRL background (at least to the same level as entertainer or noble is) I can certainly get behind. Chef the feat (minus the attribute bonus) being something a PC starts with... I don't see a specific reason not to. I suspect it likely that a huge number of people would pick up...

In all honesty, I have never had a problem with "'dead' now means 'defeated.' You are unconscious (and normal in-system ways of getting back on your feet when unconscious will not work). Your survival now depends on the context of where and how you dropped." I don't see people whine. I don't see...

And 40 more pages devoted to adjudicating 'fault.'

If this is all a cosmic misunderstanding, then I am sorry this has happened and I'm sorry you feel singled out. That said, your turn of phrase absolutely mirrored, for example, those clickbait articles that popped up when 1I/ʻOumuamua passed through our solar system back in 2017 (which tried to...

Not mine, but there's a similar interpretation of the Monkee's "Last Train to Clarksville" where Clarksville is Clarksville, TN, just outside of Fort Campbell, and the narrator '[doesn't] know if I'm ever coming home' because he's going to be shipped out to Vietnam. Apparently that line is a...

And here I thought someone was experiencing growth. Foolish me for being optimistic.

You make your jokes too long. Here, let me shorten it: "A bard and his 3 irresponsible companions arrive in heaven..."

I generally approach it as 'they genuinely remember playing by the rules in the book.' Firstly, as you say, memory. But even then, my interpretation is then that they tried to play by the rules (that they were aware of) when they showed up. No one noticed the rules for checking for exception...

Preemptive note: every time I try to get caught up on this thread, more posts arrive than I can get through before being called away. I'm going to address the OP and comment on some posts I've seen. It may all well be wildly out of date to the primary discussion at this point. I'm also going to...

Here and elsewhere.

True, and a good point to mention. A car (for instance) would have a power-plant component and a drivetrain component. However, weren't the drivetrains and engines also rated by wattage and thrust, but not horsepower? Or am I misremembering (it has been over 20-25 years, so I have no illusions...

I believe the power plant was actually in kilowatts, because why be consistent on SI or Imperial units? Spaceships, IIRC, had a couple of different implementations. Some of them basically the vehicle/robot rules, others more abstract (IIRC the version in the first 3e GURPS:Space book you pretty...

To complicate the discussion a little bit more (sorry), what GURPS ends up incentivizing you do can increase this 'slow to operate' style of complexity, outside and above the number of rolls and checks it asks one to make. Especially for something like modern-or-later firearm exchanges. Damage...

Any timeline where memes and online culture pre-date the end of Ambrose Bierce's life and literary career is a more interesting timeline than ours.

It's an issue without a single correct answer, so I'm unsurprised both that people have liked either permutation and that games were developed both with and without clear play loops. However, I think people new to a game -- and especially younger gamers and people new to RPGs in general (but...

Regarding death during character creation: even as a kid, I recognized it as a press-your-luck mechanic and not that different from rolling up a D&D character with a 6 Constitution and 'having to' start over. It clearly grabbed a bunch of other people by the adrenal gland, though (and...

Not inherently (as mentioned, you can throw fruit juice and sugar syrup in regardless of alcohol content, or otherwise change the product before or after alcohol-removal). The above-mentioned Guinness is already one of the lowest-cal dark beers available even with alcohol. That said, alcohol is...