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how do you know when someone is cruel and violent towards animals don't worry they tell you ha ha ha ha

Not oniony -- just normal Nikki Haley things, by this point.

Of course this means that companies like Comcast are giving money to candidates to have their ticket included in this mess, and they don't care about doing a little fascism along the way.

It's hilarious and telling to see "net neutrality" shoehorned in there. Goddamn queers and their net neutrality!

Not all of the content (you're talking shelves and shelves of books) but the basic rules are free.

I stopped paying attention to D&D (though not RPGs!) long before whatever schism you are referencing occurred. It's awful. But I know what I need to roll to hit armor class zero.

Plus, SJG is a genuinely awesome company full of people who are really dedicated to the love of gaming. You don't feel like you're being exploited by fashion and capital. You feel like you're collaborating with your friends.

I don't know anything about Pathfinder but compared to even the TSR days of D&D, the culture is so much better around SJG, and it really shows in the quality and depth of the source books. They are absolutely amazing. The CIA confiscated early drafts of the Cyberpunk source book along with all their computer equipment, insisting, "This is real!" I learned so much as a kid about world religion from their primary Fantasy setting source book. The rules are very simple and elegant, exploiting the naturally occurring normal distribution provided by 3d6, which maps very well to the normal distribution of real life events and makes the plusses and minuses (or "adds" if you remember Tunnels and Trolls) a lot more meaningful, realistic, and interesting because +/-1 means something completely different in different situations.

What I appreciated most was the depth of character creation, while staying incredibly light weight. D&D always seemed like a video game where your character is nothing more than a class, some equipment and some basic stats, like it's specifically designed to produce dungeon grinds, and if you want to do anything else, that's up to the DM to figure out and mix in, but it's optional. With GURPS, you're designing an actual character in the literary sense, who has stories to explore and interests that necessarily interact with other character's interests. It's an actual role playing game.

Always been a much bigger fan of Steve Jackson Games and GURPS

If this report is correct, then it can only mean that I am ... old?

Because of the mathematical structure of the public rules of the games, not because the casino fucking steals from you.