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Entitlement? I mentioned my experience with the group in question because the accusations I got for simply enforcing the rules of the game I offered to run when they differed from a game I didn't offer to run were eerily similar to some of the examples in this thread in ways that made it...

Yes "arbitrary inconsistent rules" are annoying. But the critical detail I is that players being unfamiliar with printed rules of the particular variant being played does not empower players to claim that the GM is making arbitrary inconsistent rule changes by forcing the gm to allow players...

Yes but your reply seems to echo the OP with the assumption that the GM is the one changing the rules rather than allowing for the scenario we where the player not knowing those rules for the specific poker variant they were explicitly invited to play. I commented about your metaphor extension...

No you are missing a step in the analogy. You might need to compete Chinese checkers night and a list of frustrations over how that game is not checkers. . They are playing levelup5e and a not insignificant chunk (or outright majority) of the things being called "house rules very much sound...

I think more noteworthy is that by completely redesigning a lot of sacred cows like the attack roll and really leaning into class based design with class specific resources that were viscerally specific in more than name during actual gameplay Draw Steel was able to do that without just...

Malice helps a lot, it's pretty much the director's unspoken "spice things up near quantum fueling resource" . Initiative is a bit different in ways I easily Allow gugantic dozen+ monster encounters too, there's a term not coming to mind but it's really easy to handle group(?)squad(?) based

I think that is an oversimplification that blames luck or the system for poor teamwork and a refusal of players to communicate in ways that allow them to work together with reciprocity. A lot of those kinds of watch for x and then do/get y events can be triggered by other players optimally...

@steffan raised a good question but I'll go one step further. Draw steel skill selection is not like 5e where you pick basically any skill you want. Instead you get specific skills and a choice from specific "skill groups. For example the fury is kinda the closest analog to what would be a...

You confirmed my suspicion but having read into some of the books written by people like Milton Erickson Milgram and others who seemed to be involved in some of the questionable/sometimes unexpectedly horrifying 1940s &1950s research into the topic and even done a bit of hypnotism on other...

In a lot of cases the deminimis exemption was used in ways that subsidized the seller's shipping at a cost to taxpayers who lost the jobs domestically producing warehousing or packaging those products too.

Don't we use terms like marketing propaganda and cult indoctrination for that though? Can you give some specifics if you are talking about something very different from those examples?

No need to get personal but you still aren't really making a case. Focusing the question through a lens like Star wars corrupts the discussion by forcing moral absolutism onto the framing. You yourself seem to have recent posts agreeing or admitting that the question needs to be answered in...

But not untrue, that's one of the longstanding criticisms of starwars as a whole and I'd add that your choice to omit the first half of that sentence mentioning the earlier post along omitting with the very next sentence about its cartoonish morality lends weight to the claim of how star wars is...

Yes intent matters greatly, but it's not everything either. I mentioned it several pages back in post 33 how the OP itself corrupts the discussion with a terrible comparison to star wars. The star was lore and fiction are so cartoonized it turns the whole question into a bizarre form of...

He's not wrong though. The difference between poison and medicine is often a matter of knowing when and how much to provide someone. I've seen more than one health care professional I know socially or am related to express the same "all medicine is poison but" phrase from earlier as a thing...

Going to link up this video I came across because it does a nice job of covering the details of what kinds of things are being worked out, what sort of present and near term alternatives exist along with where it's eventually heading. Extra bonus points for doing it while being focused on...

Some of us are here year round, they aren't really limited to being a summer thing https://youtube.com/shorts/NxEfRj90bRE?si=D_8A2av13-hBOJEL

Revocation of the de minimis exemption shifts it to "it depends" because what is being shipped can matter as much as where it is from and where it's being shipped from. They may not be reporting it but all of those national postal services refusing to ship are almost certainly doing things like...

I'm going to second this and add to it the fact that Star wars is too simplistic on too many sometimes cartoonish levels for the JMT (jedi mind trick) to be at all relevant to the OP's question. The JMT is really little more than a particularly quick and effective hypnotic suggestion towards an...

I think that there is zero chance this won't be appealed. More important question we will be if it appeals to scotus or Congress. Scotus has lately been rather predictable in their willingness to interpret law in unexpected ways while an appeal to Congress could be as simple as "yes we grant...