In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase "As Canadian as ____" (as in "as American as apple pie")
The winner was:
"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances"
In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase "As Canadian as ____" (as in "as American as apple pie")
The winner was:
"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances"
There's been a lot of ink spilled over when as a GM to say "yes" or "no" to a player wanting to do something, but I haven't seen too much about the power of saying, "Yes, but only this once."
You can let the cheesy use of an unintended rules mechanic or stretching the wording of an ability happen once because it's neat and you'd like to see it while not letting it happen in the future.
when I first ran D&D, my grandmother, who had bought fully into the IT'S SATANISM hype, insisted on sitting and watching the first session
about an hour in, she threw her hands up and yelled 'THIS IS JUST MATH' and stormed off
For the UK specifically, I transitioned in a lucky era in that I got onto the GRS waiting lists in the mid-00s and got the op in 2008, only a few years before the Tories started breaking everything. So from a GRS POV and in the UK specifically, things were better in the mid-00s.
But if you just want to start transition, if you want to grab a life for yourself to live, it’s a hundred times better now. Self-med; job done. Fuck the NHS.