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Hey, you linked it so all I can hope is that people follow the link and read that exchange. I'm willing to stand behind it as just helping someone find a reference instead of a "well duh just use X" statement. Inventing your own problems wouldn't be quite accurate. Instead that you seem...

Who did this/where did this happen? Or is this some straw man you're tilting at.

It's in the text that came with the permanent character record folders

Thanks Beoric, I appreciate your telling me. That discussion is one a lot of people have commented upon as having been helpful to understanding illusions.

No, I don't need to test my hooks because I'm not going to run one shots. And I'm not particularly interested in writing for people who want to run one shots. They can adapt my material. And if they can't come up with a hook, they shouldn't be running one shots, or two shots or any other shots.

A playtest is a one-shot by definition. So cut with the pretense and just talk to them as playtesters instead of trying to roleplay this stuff via hooks.

No worries

Yep, almost exactly how I do it to a tee. You tell me what you're communicating ("how" isn't strictly necessary) and CHA/reaction defines the rest.

It's perfectly fine to summarize rather than monolog, the game works fine at that level of abstraction. It's what I do more often than not. If I am not summarizing, it's probably because in the moment I've thought of a "minilog" that I think will make my fellow players laugh. I am not...

The effort wasn't entirely wasted; if nothing else you've provided a useful link to bookmark and use as an example of people filling in words we haven't said.

None of those blog posts say that people should hate roleplaying, or anything like that. None of the posts you linked to do so. The title of the thread is a joke.

I used specific words in my piece that have specific meanings. Nowhere did I say roleplaying must not occur, but that it must not be enforced upon those who have no desire to do it. This is, IME, sufficient to prevent it from becoming an unwelcome focus of effort as play-acting is often...

You can decline to create a fictitious personality separate from your own and play any alignment. Also, remember the sentence does not read "a player is not allowed by the DM to create a fictitious personality..." RE: the rest, well, if players are just being themselves at the table then that...

Being the least experienced person at the table and also being the DM was my formation in the game. fastest way to learn it.

First, they're not just my personal preferences. This isn't "The EOTB Podcast". We started it because multiple people after talking to one another realized we all wanted similar things out of games, and also similarly did not want certain things, and it was more common in the hobby to run into...

Play-acting, yes. And also the desire of at minimum some DMs in the hobby that their players are creating characters with different core personalities than themselves and then making decisions based upon this fictional personality. This is why I use the term "superseding". When I make a...

Nobody is trying to get rid of roleplaying, we're talking about a playstyle that doesn't value it and recruiting like-minded people. Those who aren't like-minded aren't on our radar at all, that's the point. Go forth and roleplay to your heart's content. Also - specifically talking about...

I certainly agree with Luke on this score.

You'd have to ask Gus and Josh. I show up and talk into a mic. 🎙