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Not really. The thing is the bad behavior of ads changes over time as advertisers willfully or accidentally submit newly creative forms of malformed ads that the services don't always catch that interacts poorly with site code. That the ads sometimes misbehave is known. Exactly how alters...

I am currently in the middle of J.S. Bailey's Dalton Kane and the Greens, which is okay. It is mostly about slow reveals of character histories that mold their current behaviors, stringing out answers to questions like, "Why did the main character faint at the sight of a salad?" Not a...

Talk like that is what gets librarians to remove people from the gene pool

We don't expect it, but we also don't serve up the ads ourselves, either.

Hey, you were the one who mentioned the paintings. If it doesn't matter all that much to you, why make it a point of discussion?

See above - getting that admission and agreement all around about the world then can inform thoughts concerning the established characters.

Establishing what the world around them is like helps inform thoughts around the established characters. If the world is established as being all white humans, then having different skin tones becomes a big freakin' deal. If the world is not all white, then we can discuss the value of...

If you are a canon literalist, it does not matter. If you are a critic, then why it was done matters a great deal. Do they? Have we established that the skin tone of all members of the Companions were canonically, explicitly white? Do we have passages mentioning all their skin tones? There...

As critics, we need to actually look at the material and establish what information we actually have about that creation. That the gods created elves, humans, and ogres is established both in the texts and game information, but the moment (or period or process) of that creation is not, to my...

Okay. So, find enough examples of Larry Elmore painting people of color to make it clear that the artist's bias isn't involved in that.

No, first we must establish, as critics, whether the evidence we have for that assertion is sound. I know of nowhere we are given in the text that the gods only made white humans, or other canonical barrier to presenting Krynn humans with diversity. If you have any canonical reference to that...

So, here's the central item. You are holding some elements of the real-world paramount, and insisting that they must also hold true in the fantasy world. But, the authors explained the origin of species on Krynn... decades ago - it is central to much of the extended fiction outside the War of...

What could "selling faster" mean other than "selling more during the analogous period for the previous game"?

This should not turn into an exercise in geeksizing. Size doesn't matter. It is how you play the games, technique, that pleases them at the table.

Indeed. The mistake Celebrim is making is to suggest that the point is to "cleanly" divide the genre into two camps, or that being "clean" is a requirement. Genre definitions are not clean. Even if you are talking about "Science fiction" and "Fantasy" the division is not clean. The fuzzy...

Mod note: Hey. Respect. Kindness. Those are understood terms. Please apply them here.

Yeah, well, "they" don't really need the label, as all work goes to whatever is current. "We", who have the choice of which we are using, need the label.

You want to punch the orc to get the pie? Roll for initiative.

Unwelcome only in how it implies that other things at the table aren't "amateur". Gamers are, broadly, amateur dramatics, amateur historians, amateur tacticians, amateur storytellers... all of it is amateur. So being down on one aspect of it for being amateur is... a bit weird.

So, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in the context I was responding to. I was responding to how supposedly, a significant number of people have to (substantially?) houserule D&D to make it do what they want. My response to that is that, we D&D gamers have done that, traditionally...