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Says the guy... named Danny....

The Laws of Thermodynamics boil down to: You can't win. You can't break even. You can't quite the game.

What's the example that proves your assertion correct? 1) Yes, but we are looking for both readability (for which prose paragraphs are best) and playability (standard templates being useful here) - you look to be prioritizing the latter, which isn't meeting the brief. 2) We are talking about...

I was Rome some years ago, and watched someone have a nigh existential crisis over an obelisk. The obelisk was over 1800 years old, from Egypt. It had been moved by the Romans, and installed in Rome. Then, in an earthquake, it had fallen over, and buried in rubble, and not stood back up...

That's your prerogative.

So, this is what I mean... Your focus on "truly alien mind" is, itself, not a peer-journal worthy consideration. You're dropping nuance. While I've got issues with Orson Scott Card for other reasons, in the Ender's Game series, he introduced us to a Hierarchy of Foreignness. We can consider...

Funny. I just said, "Buddy, you don't know what you're talking about," entirely anonymously!

I feel like if that was posted anywhere but in this thread, folks would have(correctly) asked me to whip out the red text. Even as dissociated blowing off steam back in this thread, it is a weak, stereotyping position to take. As I said, if you are going to dismiss someone, do it for their...

Yeah, but you know what? That you don't think anyone would perform to to your lofty standards... should mean precisely jack-squat to anyone who isn't at your table. This isn't about exactly how great a job is done. This is PLAY, a hobby, a place to exercise the mind. That we are perhaps...

You're trying to be ironically funny, right?

This... kinds sounds like appeal to authority. Only those who have read enough ought to speak? Gatekeep much? People who haven't read as much as you can still have good points to make, Whizbang. Indeed, they may have fewer preconceived notions than you do, and may have fresh perspectives you...

So, stepping away from the hot argument, I'd like to add some nuance here. Because... maybe you're wrong, there. We, in our real world, within our one sapient species in which race is a social construct with no biological basis, have had a horrible history with "separate, but equal", because...

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Sure. But there are lots of things that are disruptive to ongoing enjoyment of playing a character - character death being the most obvious. Playing a game with other people will almost certainly involve some amount of compromise. You can't always get what you want, as the man said...

In short: Easy-to-run modules are rather simpler than the modern norm. Gone are the days when you have a dungeon of rooms each populated, but with minimal interactions, so that a map and key to stat blocks and trap descriptions are sufficient. In the last published D&D adventure I ran, I had...

No-prize: Starkiller base is not a giant space laser. It is a giant, Force-driven hyperspace weapon. The "visible" phenomenon is essentially a Force-vision driven into the minds of every sentient being in the (very large) area.

That depends on how you get the light to focus.

Oh, there's elements of it. But, to be self-insert, the character still has to be recognizable as the author.

Most of my action declarations are because that's what the character would do. Like, that's playing a role, right? But then, most of my action declarations are not things that would cause issues for other players at the table, so there's no problem. When I realize that "what the character...

Not quite. They didn't kill people and take their land. They killed some people, and then claimed dominance over the land. The typical mode has been conquering, not genocide. Which makes the food production angle sketchy logic, as you are increasing the ruled population when you take the...