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    Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck?

    And I'm at least gesturing at the idea that someone who decides a group is good enough might be deceiving themself.
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    Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck?

    Eh. I think there's a distinction, there--some people luck into good groups, others decide they've lucked into good groups, regardless of the groups' actual goodness.
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    Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck?

    Or decide the group they've lucked into is good enough.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    At least I was quoting a song ... :LOL:
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    This is not an attitude, it's my personality.
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    Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck?

    I don't doubt that at all. Different people will have different experiences. For instance, I've had players use the Discord chat for one campaign to plan their characters for the next, and much of how those characters connected to each other. They had their character concepts in place by the...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Same with insecticides.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Unrelated to the above: Considering how much I disliked your last project in this vein, no, I will not be purchasing your new project that's being hyped.
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    Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck?

    This is part of why I'm a big fan of asynchronous session zero approaches, which I've found to be much easier now that most people at least find their games online. These days, when I'm more or less transitioning a table from one campaign to another, I do session zero stuff in a Discord text...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    My mom was an RN, and when I needed glasses in first grade, she took me to an ophthalmologist. That's probably at least part of how I am able to spell it. :LOL: These days I see two (one to keep track of my retina, one to keep track of my more-general eye health).
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I'm presuming you mean "optometrists" here, by "eye doctors," and not "ophthalmologists." (Though the latter could fall under your "crappy MDs" thing.)
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    Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown

    When @thefutilist and I played Showdown, it seemed as though there was tons of respect for each other and for the rules of the game, and for the story we were setting out to generate by playing it. On the other hand, though, I never felt as though I was really playing as my character so much as...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Probably didn't understand how a <100% effective vaccine could manage herd immunity, then.
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    Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown

    Yes, it does. I'm open to the idea it's wrong about that, and to the idea the categories overlap. My experience of it was very authorial, all the way, which might have been different from yours, and might go some way toward our thinking as to which category or categories it belongs in (or at...
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    Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown

    I haven't played Firebrands, but I don't think Showdown deserves scare-quotes around calling it a story game--it's clearly built to make a story, and a specific kind of story. That's not slagging on it--it's a well-constructed and enjoyable game.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Evergreen post.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    This took me longer to get than I'm happier about--but I'd mostly stopped listening to their new stuff by then.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Q: How many members of a band does it take to change a light bulb? A: One. The the one-named singer holds the bulb in the socket and the world revolves around him. (Yes, there's a different one-named singer this also applies to.)
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I guess people should call on Any Other Day?
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    Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason

    Blades in the dark calls them successes--in that graphic upthread, they're not in the "bad outcome" bundles--and tells the players they have a fifty percent chance of succeeding at a thing, even with just the one die. If those mixed outcomes don't feel like successes, that can very easily feel...
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