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Sure, it only takes years of experimentation to get close to right, consumes far more resources to produce smaller quantities and isn't scalable. There are technically small batches of arabica being grown in the UK, but they aren't replacing my bag of single origin Kenyan.

The influence of New York's water is often claimed to make the bagels and/or pizza crust distinctive.

Wine and coffee are the classic examples. For coffee, we only drink 2 varietals, robusta and arabica, and the Turner is larger reserved for instant. Where they are grown (especially ambient temperatures and altitude) makes all the difference in how any given batch tastes.

Mostly I'm just a monster at the FLGS counter, sifting through all the bins for anything that matches in sufficient quantities.

I actually do buy all my dice with matching colors by side count. It's fast and convenient when you put aside the dice superstitions. I have a couple sets of D20s, but I do roll identical dice when I have advantage.

New shrubs maturing. Orange with a champagne vinegar, ginger peach with a vinegar blend and plumcot with white wine vinegar.

As always I dread to discuss immersion, but this whole thing feels like a diversion from arguing that player and character decision making should be aligned. It seems to me that the desirable thing is that players and characters share decision making incentives, information (or at least have...

Well that point I'm much more sympathetic to, I'm just not persuaded a substitute activity is acceptable. I want to play the "read these tomes before play starts" game and I want to find people who also like that kind of thing. No one is made better off by throwing someone not interested in the...

This is a terrible take. I'm open to a set of RPG people who really want to be doing something more explicitly improv-y or generative, but that doesn't make the original activity inappropriate. It's one thing to look up and see a bunch of theatre kids in my hobby, it's quite another for them to...

Technically related, I just got a directional freezing rig set up to make clear rocks. Excited to build up a stockpile.

Oh I missed this! Just out of curiosity, looking at Paritor for the Champion, is there a circumstance I'm not thinking of where there's a difference between a "+1 bonus to attacks vs." and "treat AC as 1 lower" matters? That seemed strangely academic when I first read it.

I'm sure you're the foremost expert on your opinion, but I sort of assumed you were making a general claim about the structure of RPGs. If that wasn't your point and you were simply relating your perception of them, then obviously I have no grounds.

Oh I don't agree. The GM does not have a comparable role to a player in a conventional game, certainly not in trad play. If the GM is comparable to anything in bridge, it's the cards; they're a human filling in for the state of the game. Generally though, I don't think a lot of people play RPGs...

Point of order: are these metacurrencies? They look more like standard class resources at a glance. Characters seem as aware of them and able to decide to use them as players do.

Am I? I'm mostly concerned with players being able to know/do things without being at the mercy of the dice or the GM, and being able to make impactful decisions to achieve their goals. This requires impartial and trustworthy mechanics and that's most easily achieved by laying out a detailed set...

My deeply misguided parents thought my voracious fantasy habit was a waste of potential in middle school, and demanded I start reading classics, for some reason starting with Moby Dick. I was not, at age 11, ready for Melville, had a very bad time, and stopped sleeping so I could secretly read...

Well, that's the problem of sim in a nutshell. The violations are obvious, the constituents are not, and sharing those violations doesn't seem to mean sharing those constituents. I understand the urge to suggest is not a thing, because I'm not sure it's one thing.

Oh I've read it. I imagine I'd have been a big fan if the timing worked out.