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I'm not sure what point it makes though? I don't understand what you were trying to say with it, but it's usually brought up as this weird canard against resolving stuff with a single roll. Your previous example of a single social roll resolution seemed very reasonable (i.e. negotiation for...

I mean, you're misunderstanding and thus misrepresenting my position, ironically enough because you seem to be unable to see the nuance in it, which is probably on me. I just don't see soft avoidance of "direct harm" when you know it's going on and that you're supporting it as really any less...

Shadowheart is evil, unless the PC convinces her not to be, which whilst most players do manage it, isn't a given. Whether it's her fault she's evil is a more complicated question (given she was mindwiped), but she literally embraces evil unless the PC convinces her not to in BG3. But maybe...

Ooooh good example! Yes that. The trouble with that is, unless the DM is unusually reasonable and realistic, this often turns into an exercise of "roll until you fail" (in binary pass/fail systems). Like, it's one thing to assign a roll to a whole attempt to do a certain, important, meaningful...

Almost certainly. It would be a huge difference though and would feed through to videogames too. Without miraculous healing and so on being a power that belongs to a combat-capable guy in heavy armour and with a shield, and further something you can use in combat, I think we'd see very...

I could see having that be a roll, but it'd have to be a very, very "zoomed out" game in terms of time and what was going on. Like if the PCs were say, a cabal of (evil?) wizards manipulating a kingdom, and an action could be something that took months, "roll to blackmail the baron" might well...

I don't think you always need a detailed explanation of action, but you do likely need some kind of vague explanation of action to avoid the "I wouldn't do that" issues noted. I can't think of a game that does it as the OP describes either. But one-roll isn't uncommon and kind of similar...

I don't think anyone, least of all me, is saying Lovecraft wasn't an inspiration for elements of the Chaos gods, particularly the appearance of chaos mutations and so on. What I'm saying is that the apparent specific complaint re: CoC was that the Mythos entities were behind everything (which is...

But 40K doesn't have that lol. I mean, plenty of reasons to dislike 40K, but seriously the Ruinous Powers are not, in fact, behind everything, indeed, that's kind of the greatest lie they (and the Imperium of Man) ever told, which is to claim that they are.

The only 1980s boardgame or wargame I've played in the last few years was HeroQuest. It honestly didn't feel great to me despite minor updates (it was the recent re-release). Still it was more fun than Descent or Frosthaven (a very, very low bar for me lol). As others have said - would play is...

I think this is kind of funny, because you appear superficially to know so little about digital animation that you can't even describe how they'd be using beyond "Well maybe they use ChatGPT instead of Googling stuff!" and like, yeah, maybe. Last time I had an argument like this it was about...

I mean, if you're giving a Sorcerer-King a redemption arc, I think it's fair to say you've gone too far or missed the point lol. This is a guy who is described as literally someone who and I quote "kills anyone who annoys him". I don't think you can have a legit redemption arc if you do that...

I'm not sure how that's going to be that different from Nazgul Jr, unless we're making an awful lot of assumptions about Nazgul Jr. basically being some kind of mercenary or something, which wasn't what I was assuming (I was actually also assuming raised in a cult or some kind). As for "no-one...

I mean, that's nice but $300m/month is a fraction of their costs, as Altman himself was pointing out recently whilst begging for more investment and muttering darkly about "bubbles". It's also not really that much money given how widely used it is, let alone how much has been poured into it...

I think this is an interesting juxtaposition because I've seen the latter distortions cause people to have different views re: the former. A specific example would be I have a friend who doesn't like to watch horror movies, or play horror videogames, but seems to really enjoy running certain...

Small e or big E evil though? Judge Dredd is absolutely small-e evil in most presentations of him, but he's usually contrasted against even worse people, people who range from the merely very dangerously stupid or greedy to extreme big-E evil, like Judge Death ("All crime isss committed by the...

I think this is a straightforward case of projecting your experience on to others, especially with the rather bold "top professional" qualifier lol. IT (particularly support-type IT) is an ideal case where AI is uniquely useful because it's read all the easily-accessible manuals and discussions...

To add to the post re: identity: You could possibly argue that Andor suggests (thought never outright states) that not having any clear cultural identity makes it easier for you to get sucked into either being part of the fascist regime, but even ol' Syril Karn does have a cultural identity...

The difference between Sorcerers and Wizards, in terms of actual theme is basically nothing. People can talk about like "inner power" and so but really they're basically interchangeable. 5E only made them closer after weirdly dumping an actually-differentiated Sorcerer who was in the playtests...