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My sympathy, @Umran, and I wish you the best in not letting yourself get pulled into grief in advance. I've failed to do so with any of the dogs I've lost.

I've been planning to pick up the main book there. Edit: Hmmm. Apparently that's one of the books not on sale.

I've not used any of them, though I think I understand them in principal. Veils seem to just have some finesse that X-Cards and Lines don't.

Though the degree of moving parts and special-casing in D&D components can make it more than trivial to ignore those settings even if you want to. I like PF2e, but I'd find it a chore to use it for a non-Golarian based setting because there are so many assumptions from that baked into it.

Or, honestly, its long since been solved by the presence of other game systems in the first place. I'm on record as noting that the basic mechanics of a system tell you a fair bit about the kind of settings its going to support properly, and D&D is far from distant from that; its got enough...

Hmmm. That might be worth a read. Is it generalized or aimed at particular systems or kinds of system?

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...