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  1. Umbran

    Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

    If only he had said that he built it in 2028...
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    Netflix announces deal to buy WB and HBO

    You are still paying for entire channel catalogs, most of which you probably don't watch.
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    Will there ever be new editions of the major systems?

    We can look instead at Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Spider-Gwen, and Ironheart/Riri Williams, all creations post 2010.
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    Netflix announces deal to buy WB and HBO

    Which is Amazon re-inventing cable premium channels...
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    What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?

    That doesn't make it okay. Being deliberately derogatory is a great way to get yourself removed from the discussion. If you can no longer be civil, folks, leave the thread.
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    What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?

    I GM a lot, yes. Hey. If you want to get anything out of this discussion, you're gonna have to stop projecting your own emotional loads onto others. I am a service-oriented GM. I am at the table to try to make sure the players have a good time. Sometimes that means I run a very traditional...
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    D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard.

    You are going to have to actually present a case for that. You do not hold authority to dismiss without support. If those 35+ year-olds would not have been in the group of gamers playing for less than a year, their exclusion would not change how many sessions that population played before...
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    Telling Tales: Building Your Legend Through Lies

    Well, as an example, in Deadlands, there is a concept of the Fear Level of an area. If the PCs go out and deal with some nasty, scary thing, and come back to town and tell the tale (with whatever embellishment is appropriate, obviously) the PCs can drop the area's Fear Level.
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    What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?

    So, there's something here we can pick at. The genre of fantasy, overall, is broad. The genre of easy-entry, psuedo-medieval, pseudo-sword-and-sorcery fantasy RPGs using traditional rulesets is rather less broad. Stepping out of that Tolkien/Gygaxian genre box may call for different kinds of...
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    What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?

    Because, as we all know, the internet only supports the extremes. We can embrace the broad space between "the GM is all-powerful" and "the GM just services the player's needs".
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    Spoilers Stranger Things Season 5 - SPOILERS

    Nope. They note this in Season 4 - the Upside Down mirrors Hawkins as of the date One/Henry/Vecna got shoved into it by Eleven. The implication is that UD-Hawkins is largely Vecna's creation, not a natural aspect of the space.
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    What's the best potato?

    About a buck a can.
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    Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

    Well, what we think of as "time travel" would include traveling faster than light in the positive direction of time, or at a negative speed, depending on direction. And that's not including Einstein's closed timelike curves, which take optimal advantage of relativity in curved space to arrive...
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    What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?

    Pretty much this, yes. If setting lore doesn't impact play, a person playing is not likely to give that lore priority in their mind.
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    D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard.

    Sigh yourself, oh Condescending One. I am, at the moment, mostly discussing gamers who were new in the hobby, under one year. How many of those do you figure were over 35 in 1999, before 3e was published?
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    D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard.

    Mod Note: Hey. Next time you want to insult someone's intelligence, please don't. Because publicly forgetting such a basic rule as "Keep it civil" isn't gonna make you look all that smart yourself.
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    Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

    Exactly. However, for purposes of talking about movement within your house, no other choice makes a whole lot of sense, either.
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    Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

    Not really. This is most readily seen in how the observable universe has a measurable radius (some 46.5 billion light years) Anything beyond the edge of the observable universe is receding from us faster than light, such that light from it will never reach Earth. But, Einstein tells us that...
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    Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

    Since, per Einstein, time is not fundamentally different from space, that's like saying in order to move in space, you need to be put outside space. I will try again. Frames of reference are arbitrary. You may choose the frame for your convenience. So, put a battlemat on a table. Put a...
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    Netflix announces deal to buy WB and HBO

    Mod Note: The "no politics" rule does apply to you.
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