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I think maybe you'd be best off with a one on one chat and say that you have some questions that you'd like clarified without trying to call any of them "rookie mistakes". Rookies are expected to make mistakes - it's one way they learn. You can even talk about how these house rules should be...

Yes. And if you remember the line in Casino Royale where he specifies Gordon's as a brand, you see that in a number of the books as well. Fleming name drops specific brands to set exactly what kind of consumer Bond is.

I think not. Much of which Bond is anyone's favorite is going to associate with the movie(s) the actor is in. Moore suffers for me because the movies got far too cheesy, even compared to Lazenby's OHMSS. Brosnan's movies are, to me, utterly forgettable - they're, in fact, the only Bond movies I...

For me, it's a toss up between Connery and Craig, Dalton third, then maybe Lazenby fourth.

For being crowd-sourced, Wikipedia is shockingly reliable these days. A number of studies show Wikipedia holds its own compared to a variety of other encyclopedias with its most significant lag being in general readability. While it remains potentially subject to vandalism, it has achieved a...

I guess I had really checked out of that thread for a while but, looking back, it sure did leave a body count. The schadenfreude tickles.

Admiral Piett actor Kenneth Colley has passed away. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xv50jnwngo.amp

Sleazy televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has met his maker. https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-swaggart-dies-obituary-ae4b9f551dc141cc820437ab7c194766 And, honestly, I'm surprised. I figured he was already dead...

Second post and I think the thread already had a pretty good and workable answer. Open-ended, ongoing games have any number of informal wins/losses involved in play. In that sense, it's not that different from bowling leagues - any of which may have a series of wins/losses (though in this case...

Jim Shooter, longtime editor at Marvel, has died of cancer. https://www.cbr.com/jim-shooter-comic-book-icon-dc-marvel-obituary/

Sure but there's also a difference between saying you dislike a play style and using that term like a badwrongfun cudgel... which goes on way too much around here.

Boy, was that Ignore overdue. I can’t imagine why I waited so long to pull that trigger.

It wouldn't support stagnation unless kids were the same from generation to generation. I think it's pretty easy to see that isn't true. The zeitgeist the kids grow up in is always changing and their values and interests change with it. A game continually targeting younger players is going to...

Ultimately, with the movies this is already what they did. How many Bond villains were actually Cold War spies or governments? Very few. The villains are most often those very technofascists, billionaires, and international criminal conspiracies operating from outside of the Cold War...

Moreover, when the corporations fully shifted over to plastic bottles instead of glass returnables, it was largely when Boomers were the generation in control of those decisions. Boomers drinking out of returnables as kids doesn't really absolve them of the responsibility of the higher...

You have to avoid seeing Forrest Gump. It's not for you.

Item hoarding, cutthroat PvP, griefing, and breaking rules are all given due homage in the Munchkin card game. It really does skewer the player type brilliantly.

One possible factor is that a lot of early combats with the Mighty Nein are with 6 PCs instead of 7. Ashley was away on other work a lot during that time period while she's been on hand throughout Bells Hells consistently. Add to that the overall oddballness of Bells Hells chaos monkey PCs and...

I'm quoting that one for emphasis. This issue is so bad it cannot be overemphasized.

Oh, I'm pretty sure he recognizes that the discussion here isn't about allowing people to build their characters in a competent or even highly-competent way. Nor do I think he's actually characterizing the discussion incorrectly. This discussion, as I see it, is mainly about defining how a...