Standard drinking games are badly designed; if someone does badly, they get drunk, then do worse on the next game, which prompts more drinking. The only people who play drinking games want to drink, but when you lose, you drink, so the incentives don't track anyone's goals. A better drinking game would have a drink as …

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Tabletop RPGs have struggled with pronouns more than most places, because they speak through constant examples. The fighter rolls a '10' on Initiative, and the goblins roll and '8'. He goes first. A,D&D used the default 'he', throughout all examples, and in the second edition, printed a small box explaining that …

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