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Obviously the first. The second is a pernicious myth that contributes to “hustle culture” and other societal ills.

Does that website not have…authority? :)

Yes, exactly. But that’s why you reference experts, they have access to the evidence to support the claims they’re making. But I’m not getting into the weeds on this, posting about logical fallacies is pretty much the “farting loudly” of online discussion.

I’ll do that, but 5e has added millions to the player base; obviously I can’t stop until I’m sure that every single one of them has been exposed to all the available modes of play first. It’s really a moral imperative at this point.

Wandering Inn is definitely not the right series if you want limited POVs. :). There has to have been over a hundred by now.

Fair. But those are the elements I like! Some of my favorite chapters are the ones focused on random characters in a side story.

"Worth the Candle" is my vote for LitRPG that's also really thoughtful about what the genre means and what it's trying to accomplish. The Wandering Inn would be my other example, but you already mentioned it. It's also extremely difficult to recommend simply due to its monstrous length.

Sure. And not here, where everyone understands other modes of play and has assumedly already decided their preferences, but for a larger game audience, the question is "Do you love pretending to exist in a fictional world? Or do you just love making things up and telling a story? Or do you...

I can see that. From my perspective, I would say that for more narrative play, setting a character goal and and trying to achieve it isn't a "win/lose", it's a "blue/orange". Even if my character loses, I as a player still win because my character went on a journey. The only real loss is not...

Nothing wrong with that! I also enjoy a rousing game of Robo Rally!

I mean, you can't have a gamist game (which you seem to prefer) without some kind of win condition or at least a metric of success, right?

Sure. And I think the narrative critique against that style of play (or why they don't prefer it), can be overly simplified into "The DM is so limited as a conveyer of a fictional space that why don't you just lean into what a group of humans is actually good at, which is being imaginative with...

I would agree. I mean, the entire point of a fail-forward game with focus on narrative generation is that there is no defined fail state. There might be an unpleasant ending wherein the PCs fail to accomplish their goals, to be sure; that's different from the focus of play being an...

I mentioned this way back earlier in the thread, but my personal opinion is that "detection" and "perception" abilities work against the strong framing of conflict the GM could use to push the narrative. The general use of a perception ability in D&D-likes is to gate the GM's narration of the...

I'm shocked that citing the authority of academic sources wasn't able to solve a division in what "appeal to authority" means. :)

You could even say it's "exhausting". :)

An appeal to authority is fallacious in the case where the authority isn't a credible responder to the question being asked. The reason those experts are questioned is to allow the jury or judge to make a considered decision on the relative credibility of each witness. If calling expert...

Sigil is totally fine. Mom and Dad just moved it to a farm upstate, so it could run around freely and play with its friends Concord and Anthem.

I explicitly frame my campaign starts such that the characters generally already know each other and have been working together for a while. "Random strangers meet in a tavern" doesn't cut it for me, generally.

But it would give you the opportunity to yell out "Guys, this is all Greek to me!", which is generally not a chance afforded to someone outside of actual trips to Greece. :)