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The things I like are not popular because my tastes are much more refined than the majority's. The things you like are not popular because they're garbage.

Again, the difference between pro wrestling and any sort of actual game is that in a game the outcome is in doubt--Steve Austin was always going to lose that match to the Hurricane, to use your example--so Combat as Pro Wrestling means the outcome of the fight is already decided. Not "the odds...

Actually, I'm not, because there's nothing in what I said that doesn't mean the outcome is still in doubt. If we're playing a game, it must be possible to lose.

I'm not really arguing with your point that if there's a game, losing has to be a possibility, but you can have a big set-piece thing specifically set up to give the PCs some specific opportunities, things to let them show off some, while still leaving losing--due to bad choices and/or bad...

I can agree that Combat as Sport has different priorities than Combat as War, but there's nothing inherent to the idea of "fair challenge" that means the GM is going to "make sure the players win." Combat as Theater--especially if kayfabe is a real comparison--might have the outcomes...

I think the idea that the story doesn't end--or pause--when there's a fight getting started is solid, certainly PCs can (and often do) make tactically suboptimal decisions because of narrative/roleplay reasons, up to and including picking bad fights (from a combat-as-war POV, so including both...

And I'm at least gesturing at the idea that someone who decides a group is good enough might be deceiving themself.

Eh. I think there's a distinction, there--some people luck into good groups, others decide they've lucked into good groups, regardless of the groups' actual goodness.

Or decide the group they've lucked into is good enough.

At least I was quoting a song ... :LOL:

This is not an attitude, it's my personality.

I don't doubt that at all. Different people will have different experiences. For instance, I've had players use the Discord chat for one campaign to plan their characters for the next, and much of how those characters connected to each other. They had their character concepts in place by the...

Same with insecticides.

Unrelated to the above: Considering how much I disliked your last project in this vein, no, I will not be purchasing your new project that's being hyped.

This is part of why I'm a big fan of asynchronous session zero approaches, which I've found to be much easier now that most people at least find their games online. These days, when I'm more or less transitioning a table from one campaign to another, I do session zero stuff in a Discord text...

My mom was an RN, and when I needed glasses in first grade, she took me to an ophthalmologist. That's probably at least part of how I am able to spell it. :LOL: These days I see two (one to keep track of my retina, one to keep track of my more-general eye health).

I'm presuming you mean "optometrists" here, by "eye doctors," and not "ophthalmologists." (Though the latter could fall under your "crappy MDs" thing.)

When @thefutilist and I played Showdown, it seemed as though there was tons of respect for each other and for the rules of the game, and for the story we were setting out to generate by playing it. On the other hand, though, I never felt as though I was really playing as my character so much as...

Probably didn't understand how a <100% effective vaccine could manage herd immunity, then.

Yes, it does. I'm open to the idea it's wrong about that, and to the idea the categories overlap. My experience of it was very authorial, all the way, which might have been different from yours, and might go some way toward our thinking as to which category or categories it belongs in (or at...