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I think the play a given person or group does is paramount for that person or group. Someone who doesn't play HERO at a table but still does chargen for fun is still getting some pleasure from the game, I don't know that it's play but I don't really care, either. I think if that person played...

Eh. Chargen is definitely something, and it's engaging with the rules. It's lacking the interactive and social aspects, but so (arguably) is something like Thousand-Year-Old Vampire. (Yes, the latter is specifically written for solo play, there's still no social interaction happening.) Session...

I have a couple of thoughts in response to this: First, "play" can refer to many things, of which an obvious one is HERO-style chargen. So, whatever pleasures a given person gets from the game matter. Second, if play at a shared table is happening (what most of us would probably call "playing...

I currently have no ignore list, but there are several posters I don't respond to (maybe if they quote me). I also, however, don't spend as much time in the depths of the threads as some of y'all.

I think I at least agree with the direction your thesis points at. None of the things you mention--rules or prep or ephemera--matter if they never arise in play; and at least in principle the point of all of them is shape the experience of play to be what the creators (the people who write the...

I am reasonably sure it was not the existence of humor that bothered me. King Sorrow is laden with it, as are many of the novels of Stephen Graham Jones. I (still) am not sure which novel it was that I thought was so bad, but it was probably one of the two y'all have mentioned, though the...

Let's give him a big hand!

I'm getting a vaguely bell-like ringing sound in response to the character named "Mouse," but the thumbnail summaries I'm seeing don't seem quite right. Knowing that she's weakest in modern settings tells me whatever I read probably wasn't near her best--on the other hand, it's the horror...

It was something set in the present-day Appalachians, and I just could not get past the way the main character's mobile phone just conveniently kept implausibly not working, though I don't remember the rest of it being particularly good. It was definitely under the T Kingfisher name. Then...

I see T Kingfisher mentioned enough--and on library and bookstore shelves enough--that I remember which book of hers I read and found laughably bad, so I could ask if it was some nadir in her writing. Alas, I do not remember the title.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a thing.

Arguably this hobby was founded by such people.

Seems as though any of those could be enjoyable, and "best" is likely to be very much a personal preference.

Well, that seems as though it could be ... interesting. I hope it's at least relatively stable ...

It's taking long enough that I have to think they might feel it's a feature.

Yes.

Joe Hill's King Sorrow is long and grim and very good. Vaguely downbeat around the ending, even.

I was assigned Gatsby as part of a creative writing class, so the focus was probably different than in a purer literature class, and I read The Catcher in the Rye after I dropped out of college. I should reread the latter, but I enjoyed it a good deal more than I think most of the people who are...

My own recent experiences with rereading things from my distant past were distinctly mixed. I read Something Wicked This Way Comes in high school or college or thereabouts, and I probably was too close to the age of the mains to put aside the "looking down on the kids" thing, and I was nowhere...