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Out of curiosity, would a Veil do when those come up? The reason I ask is that I respect the idea of safety tools, but maaan I can't say but that it would sometimes make it impossible for me to properly plan for some kinds of games if I got an X-Card or after-the-fact Line applied in some...

I'd say some players care about worldbuilding if they do it. Some really don't, except in the broadest sense possible. They're there to either overact, solve puzzles or beat things up, and the specifics of the setting are just not important except to the minimal degree they need to understand...

That's the point. There was no functional way for them to play in those games, because the setting wouldn't work right without those invisible-to-people conventions, and the way they played their characters wouldn't work right with them. The threads just wouldn't meet in the middle.

And you need to recognize that there are players--quite a lot of them IME--who don't want to seriously deal with any setting's lore. And no, not playing with such players is not a functional option for everyone.

Guess what kind of games I was referring to with "high convention"? The point was, they just flat out wouldn't play those genres, even though they didn't work right without those kind of mechanics, because they insisted their characters had to be able to think about those conventions if they...

Though those Simulationists tended to get more than a bit weird when high-convention genres came up, in part because they virtually demanded that you both use the conventions and ignore them in-character, which most of them were really hostile to/incapable of doing.

Discord, in my experience, works pretty well for relatively small groups, but the larger the active user base of a given Discord is, the more useless it becomes. Even the small ones are suboptimal for extensive discussion on a single topic, though (theoretically the threading option helps here...

I'm not saying I prefer Reddit or Discords over discussion boards; I find the formats kind of annoying for any extensive discussion in either. I'm just saying that trying to draw a bright line between them and other social media seems to be off. There are ones that seem fundamentally different...

Odd. I don't even want most of what my first two big systems gave me any more.

Or, as far as that goes, mailing lists (and, yes, I was around for both).

I acknowledge you think so. Now you'll have to acknowledge I think they have considerable overlap in how they work in practice. I've seen discussions in all three that were not meaningfully different than they'd have been in one of the others.

While different flavors have differences, I think this ignores how much some of them overlap (particularly Discord and Reddit).

I haven't seen it in play so far, but I will say after a detailed read there were obviously some serious attempts to solve problems that haunted Dragon Age (and as far as I can tell, Fantasy Age 1e). I suppose its no surprise that intelligent designers who've gotten to see how things worked...

I think the problem here is "believability" is a moving target, not only on the viewer, but on genre and setting. Things that might be jarring in some genres and settings are easily accepted in others (obviously, this doesn't apply to everyone, some people have redlines they can't cross and...

Taking advantage of the DTRPG sale (and my wife's early go-ahead as a Christmas present), picked up a bunch of the Earthdawn 4e books, Household 2, and various maps, all from my wishlist on sale.

I've seen too many people who were disruptive in some ways, but also the people who drove the campaign, could be bothered to understand the rules, or otherwise were positive support to the campaign to take that seriously, honestly. Maybe some people have such a wide variety of players available...

They're just going to keep hammering their particular take on this even though there's no sign most people in the industry share it.

And notably this is in the TTRPGs General Forum, which suggests the original poster was not assuming D&D would be the answer as a default.

Yeah, it varies of course, but I've absolutely been interactive with more than one YouTuber over the years, some of them for extended periods, especially some musicians and Let's Players.

Its an excellently made show, but you have to want what its offering (that's even more true with its companion show "Helluva Boss").