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Eh. Yesterdays, cool, edgy, flavorful is today's trite, cliché, and trying too hard. The stuff you find flavorful can be boring and overdone to someone else. Yep, folks like my godkid. I taught them to play D&D using Lost Mine of Phandelver when they were younger - they then took off and...

Note: media entertainment for younger generations is always made by older generations. D&D was originally designed by Silent Generation and Baby Boomers, but the major wave of players in the 80s was GenX, for example. So, that shouldn't really be an issue - each generation has folks visionary...

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There's a bunch of games out there where one's play piece(s) in the game space represents a person - and any such games are ripe for role-play. So, Gloomhaven/Frosthaven; Betrayal at the House on the Hill/Betrayal Legacy, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Arkham Horror, Sentinels of the...

...Umbran goes digging for his Switched on Bach and Switched on Beethoven CDs.....

Neither does "sports", but folks don't seem to have an issue with it. People get that "sports" covers all sorts of different activities, from team to individual competition, from complex games to activities testing physical prowess in single, focused ways... I don't agree - any more than...

Kabbalah has a concept of, for lack of a better way of putting it, levels of enlightenment, or levels of "soul consciousness". I think they are named, rather than numbered, though. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn also has a leveled structure, which descends from the Rosicrucians. But...

Yes, but that's exactly the point! Han's language was chosen because of the sound of it. The actual content was not really well considered. Same for the comic book - the author wanted something that sounded right - an implication ranking of power - without much consideration of the...

The underlying general problems of internet discussion combine poorly with our tendency to over-specify our identities. It occurs to me - you know how we find that actual long-term exposure to people of other nationalities and cultures tends to relieve people of racist attitudes? Perhaps the...

It wasn't high on my list of priorities, but I did get around to watching it. I wasn't impressed. The ending left me pretty flat.

When folks refer to it as a "sin", they are definitely putting on airs. And this isn't just about the one "well done" state. Please do not oversimplify the issue. Human teeth and digestive system, aren't made for raw meat either. Cooking is pre-digestion, and as a species we rely on it for...

"Cannot stand someone being in the space" is when you get in a twist because there's a trans person in the convention gaming hall. "Cannot stand the existence of another being recognized.." is getting riled up because WotC recognized that the market has lgbtq+ folks in it, by depicting some of...

Sometimes you can. But when one demographic cannot stand the mere existence of another being recognized in the space, there will be no pleasing them. Also, there is opportunity cost to consider. For example, as of 2021, gamers aged 40+ were some 13% of the D&D playing population. So, they...

To point people at merchandise they were selling for LGBTQ+ history month, to raise awareness and funds for crisis hotlines.

We all should, with any piece we put out into the world, consider what we want, and what we expect, to get out of it, and whether what we are putting out will actually get us what we want. Say you hate pepperoni. You walk into a pizza place where loads of people are seeming to enjoy pepperoni...

Not "supposed to grow out of". But most folks who play D&D don't do so for life. It's less that we are going to grow out of it, more that they expect players to move on - maybe to other games, maybe to a new job that takes them from their group, maybe to having kids, and so on. I mean, if...

Keep it clean, please.

Maybe you have missed the point - upthread, folks mentioned that their idea of simulationist games included something akin to how the character thinking about their world ought to mirror the player thinking about the rules. If we are taking that as a point, then if the rules are encounter-based...

I am about to get a little salty, but hopefully amusing.... Then, by all means, show your work. Numbers pulled out of your Astral Plane are not persuasive. My father would have called that "horsehockey". Control is an illusion - even WotC figured that out and put 5e under Creative...