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April 05, 2017

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On Being Very Wrong

I don't want to write this, not really. It requires me to admit I've been stupid and mean, and I'm not a huge fan of being those ways. AND I have definitely been stupid and/or mean in the past, and have come to recognize that these feelings of discomfort are indicators I may be learning something new, perhaps even something vital, by looking hard and honestly in neglected parts of my behavior. With work, I might even be able to fail better in the future instead of making the same harmful mistake with someone else. I'm trying to be not be humorous or flippant as I write, since this is a serious matter and the numbing avoidance of self-deprecation is an escape attempt. --- ----- --- Okay, so, I fucked up. I wrote some words to publicly fume about how important context is (it's very important!), while not having all the context I would need to understand the situation. The bits at the end of the post are still spot on -I'm not going to be taking down the paper

the post where the internet corrected me and I learned something

edit: I wrote this, it shall remain as written--but check out the comments because it's a good example of strangers on the internet being informative and helpful! Special thanks to The Happy Anarchist, Olav M., and Robert C.: you three rock! Ray, I'm sorry I doubted you. I wrote a post a while back about this . Unknown in the comments didn't seem to get how bell curves work, or didn't think they applied, and I tried to remedy that.....and then, after a few exchanges, I thought "wait, am I trying to convince someone on the internet??" and (with as much good humor as I could muster) I decided to let Unknown's ignorance continue unopposed. But then I stumbled through to this other post , where the author (why, Ray, why!?) seems to be asserting the same thing as Anon: that d66 is a flat, curve-less probability like any single-die roll. And now I'm thinking "am I the ignorant one?!?".... so, here's me presenting my thinking. (Although my

mini-review: how to encounter

I've been delaying writing this post for a while now, and this thing noisms wrote about shared hallucination/imagination convinced me now is the time. I backed the Silent Titans kickstarter and have not run it yet. I haven't even read it through thoroughly enough to parse out what I think of it overall, or how I might try to adapt it (or not) to run at my home table. (...definitely looked at all the gorgeous pictures, which if I'm honest were about 75% of why I backed it in the first place...) I have read through approximately the first third of the book, and found gold even in that shallow panning: the section on Making an Encounter . Reams have been written about designing dungeons, designing monsters, judging the "appropriate challenge level" for encounters, the importance of random encounters, the value of reaction rolls, the key role morale plays in d&d, and, of course, the often-flubbed "what is roleplaying" blurb. However -and this

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