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I think the switch to acending AC probably qualifies here. It's undoubtedly simpler to operate and it doesn't sacrifice any granularity of mechanical outcomes. I don't say that it is 100% better, I get that there's a certain nostalgia to low AC = better, and also it communicates something...

Yeah! That was kind of the most fantastical part of the movie - the idea that the FF say 'OK everyone in the world cooperate' and the world says 'OK'. But it was refreshing.

'Surprising number of free form answers' = 'This survey has no value'

My argument isn't that it's just the former, my argument is it's both. Your argument seemed to be that it's just the latter. Also I didn't say power, I said billionaires. I don't think most (non-US) politicians are corrupt.

Yeah I'm aware of the Authority (and Planetary), two very good reactions to this concept.

I'm not sure visiting fascist regimes holds much appeal regardless of their surveillance capabilities.

I think if you have the power of superman then you have a moral imperative to topple certain regimes through violence. All the comic book superheroes are evil people. To have the power to solve world hunger and topple fascist regimes, but to choose not to do so, is evil.

I don't think people are as craven as you suggest. I also don't think that billionaires are a representative sample of people's morality. I suggest that even being a billionaire is a fundamentally evil, immoral act. You are choosing having a third golden toilet over three thousand children...

So you're conceding that players don't meaningfully impact what happens in play? You're The Author and they're just replaceable audience members?

Note how you have made 'I want to play race X' the same as playing an evil PC, or making the game some sort of awkward sexual harassment experience involving children, or triggering the GM's phobias. It's almost like you know that 'I want to play race X' is a difficult thing to object to unless...

He was entitled. All that poetry and making up stuff about the gameworld. Mainly the poetry.

Tolkien initially said no hobbits! But then he let one player be a hobbit and when three more made the same request he was trapped by an unavoidable precedent.

Oh yeah. The GM says 'no Tortlemen'. What an auteur they must be.

I arranged a playtest of one once but no-one showed up

I don't think casual players who don't want to try new things are 'the great majority' of the hobby.

Make your mind up! Is it the greatest film ever, or isn't it?!?one

If nothing else this thread might have sold me on watching the Superman film.

Normally the PC just sort of hangs out in the background. Only rarely (and out of necessity) would another player roleplay them, although in combat we would normally have someone operate them (probably ineptly). Sometimes if the PC is the focus of the pending session, and those moments cannot...

I suggest that anyone who has experience of being a manager or leader in the real world knows that it is done with consent. In fact seeking consensus and being willing to negotiate and compromise - not on everything, clearly, but where possible - is a sign of confidence and skill in a manager or...

Catching up on the thread, but can I just check what you mean here? I agree that if the premise is explicitly 'you are all dwarves' or something, a player saying 'hey can I be a tortleman' is not cool. The GM is absolutely right to say no. If a player has a very good explanation for how such a...