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I think the fairly obvious is that nobody decided this explicitly. Rather, it was the byproduct of other decision that had unintended side effects. This is the big, granddaddy reason. Once you started working with skills, largely starting with adding the thief, someone was gonna be the skill...

It may be one of those player kneejerk reactions that are kind of inexplicable. You can beat their PCs up, even kill them, and some players will shrug it off. But, oh man, imprison them or <shudder> destroy their stuff and they'll go ballistic.

This is one of those tricks of how normal procedures are practiced, I suppose. If the players don't have any significant input on the framing of the situation (whether a scene/situation or start of an adventure or even being together in a tavern and being approached by an adventure hook...

It's absolutely worth checking out. It's quite a performance.

Uh, I think some of that's Tolkien prior to D&D: Burgler Baggins. Dwarves like Thorin affected by dragon sickness. Bow-using elves come from Legolas. Orcs are just plain evil. And the wizards are old with long beards.

I thought the Muppets was actually quite good. They were definitely in the humor vein of 30 Rock and The Office more than the original Muppet Show. But I thought it worked pretty well and expanded on some of the characters without contradicting what they stood for. People forget that one of Jim...

There's going to be overlap just as there was in Rashomon. But everyone at the table has a different perspective on the game, how the campaign's events are unfolding, what importance and prominence they will assign to those events, and how they'll remember and think about them. Each player comes...

Too late. Prior art. The Rashomon effect (or principle) has been out as public term since about 1982.

This poor young woman's death once again reminds me why I live in a place where the air makes my face hurt for part of the year.

When I got it was the summer of 1981 and I was 12. I got the keys to the car from my mother, went out to the parking lot, and just started reading it. I remember thinking it was so in-depth about specifics compared to the Holmes Basic edition that my friend had.

This was a birthday gift from my elder daughter. So it's now on one (of many) of our bookshelves.

My wife and I just finished Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire by Don Martin. Now, we've started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. And on the side, I've started Antony Beevor's The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II, which I just got last night as a belated...

I purchased this bad boy at my local Waldenbooks (and by local I mean 20 miles from home).

When I first saw the picture of the library conference room, I thought, "That kind of screams New England." Then I saw that you're in Fairfield, CT. So, yeah, picturesque location.

I think it would be hard for me to think of an edition change that was a downgrade across the board. There may be aspects that were a downgrade, others a lateral-grade, and others an upgrade. I have an easier time thinking of something as, broadly, an upgrade even if there are a few things it...

I try to at least give the game a go by RAW before I start making house rules. I figure I should give it a try as written to the best of my ability so I have an inkling of how it's supposed to work.

And the fundamental difference between the portents and doom of this Threat that's going to intersect a bunch of their priorities and a chain of events set out (under the presumption that the PCs are going to somehow interact with them) is what exactly? You're characterizing the plot set out as...

This all kind of underscores the fundamental uselessness of the whole "play to find out" statement as a practical matter. As if any RPG can't lay claim to that statement. Whether it's no prep or extensive prep, RPGs have pretty much always been about playing to find out what happens, what the...