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Well, for my group, it's about genre. I tend to mostly run long campaigns (3+ years has been typical), and after playing one genre for a while, my players want to switch it up. D&D simply isn't that great outside its own genre, so unless we are doing High Fantasy, we are probably using some...

Hm. I am not debating about militarism in WW2. But, what I got from the film wasn't that "the military" were victims. I got that the individual humans, many of whom were in the military, were victims. Kind of like how I could do a piece on Vietnam veterans who really got the short end of...

Not counting live-action gaming... In a given month, that is probably two games. Over the course of the last year, though... I am currently active in two regular games. One is Fate Accelerated. The other will, by year's end, have been me running D&D, one of my players running...

Yes. Would it change your mind... about what? Other monster movies? No, it won't do that. G-1.0 is a kaiju/monster movie, but it is much more than just a monster movie. It is stretching the genre into new spaces, and doing a really great job of it.

My wife is a veterinarian, who is also trained in herbal medicine. What Danny notes is important - 1) Loads of our pharmaceuticals are still discovered from natural sources. GLP-1s, the current super-seller class of drugs, were originally found in the saliva of gila monsters, after noting...

There's a place near us that does these amazing... stacks of food - there's bread, there's a huge meat patty, and there... all kinds of stuff. And I mean... stuff. One offering is a burger with... mozzarella sticks, fried mac & cheese, onion rings, fries, bacon, golden BBQ sauce, and american...

Note, even early "sodas" were made fizzy by adding carbon dioxide - that dates back to the 1700s, even. Some sodium bicarbonate was sometimes added, but not to make water fizz. When you add carbon dioxide to water, you get carbonic acid - the sodium bicarbonate was to control acidity.

I can allow that different places can have different users, sure. You repeat that, as if in contrast to the assumption that we don't work with folks who we moderate. You'd be very wrong in that assumption. To be perfectly clear - we are not engaged in public shaming. We have found that if...

Mod note: And I really do suggest you stop making this personal. It comes across as snide and disrespectful, and risks you being removed from the discussion.

Mod note: The first thing you probably should have noticed was the site rules (linked at the bottom of every page), especially our inclusivity policy. First post, resurrecting a thread that's been dormant for a month and a half, with a post that brushes up on the rules isn't a great look. You...

People are less willing to pursue disagreement face to face, first and foremost, because we get subtextual cues (vocal tone, body language, facial expression, and so on) that moderate our behavior - our sense of empathy is a strong moderator of our own behavior, but it doesn't work particularly...

Well, hold on a second there. You sound like you are criticizing Exandria for not having things that you admit the players don't want anyway. What's up with that?

Mod Note: I put a warning in this thread earlier today. "He only said ad hominem, so I can just swap to a generally insulting tone, instead. That'll be fine," is entirely NOT the take-away from that warning. If you can't keep your approach to discussion respectful, please recuse yourself from...

The question isn't whether they feel the need to make it clear. The question, in context of online communities, is: how well the ensuing discussion with randos on the internet is going to go if you don't make it clear? Statistically speaking, that is - is not ever bothering going to get you...

"...any number of willing creatures THAT YOU CAN SEE within range...." Human eyes usually lose the ability to see and differentiate people's facial features at 150 feet. At a thousand feet, you're going to be hard pressed to see the person is present at all, much less be able to pick...

Hr. This is difficult to answer. I have, for a long time now, been using a lot of published adventure materials. This massively front-loads my prep time, putting it where it is convenient, but disconnects it some from actual play, such that I don't really know the prep/play ratio. When I am...

I want to drill a little bit more into this. MGibster, if you haven't noticed... you don't live on the Planet Vulcan. Expecting folks to behave as if they were... isn't appropriate. Let me tell you about the limbic system. It is a set of subsections, networks, and processes in your brain...

Really? We were taught in kindergarten how to share, to not hit each other, and not to say mean things to each other, right? See how well that took?

You don't? Hopefully I can enlighten you. Speaking broadly about human psychology (so, there are exceptions) - the words we use matter. How we speak about things changes how we think about them, the emotions we attach to them, and how others think about them. The most basic example which...

The feature isn't about the person being blocked, it is about allowing the person who is blocking to curate their experience and feel safe. Broadly speaking, if someone is clueless, or jerkish, enough to get blocked, their opinions on the right way to manage social interactions ought to be...