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No. I am simply polygamerous. Edit to add: That may have been funny, but really, no. Games are not people, and marriage is an...

I found that for me, and my group, it's considerably slower, due to communication issues, and worse with the VTT up instead of just a...

In the past, I had several sessions where I was GMing remotely due to illness. I have a group in Alaska that I like running for. They...

Given the more than 10,000 RPGs that have been released... most everything's been covered. Even the TV Evening Soap has a Dallas...

So, a relatively good first skim done, and char gen read... Starting Level is by group consensus - with GM agreement. One of 30, 40, 50...

Novices reading the rules need to be warned what to look for, especially since many come to the hobby by reading a gift rulebook.

Fun fact: When you're laying on a white sand beach, you're effectively laying in a lot of parrotfish poop.

those cables need to be metal due to the stretchyness of plant fiber rope (and modern polymer rope, too)

The first underground trains were in mines... usually drawn by equines. A system with vent-shafts was used for the first steam...

In writing rules, one should account for the expected authority dynamics. Including the common enough «bleep»-head dynamics.

How can you do fake rolls without also practicing illusionism?

No, it's not. it's the default operation of traditional play. Is that door locked? Either the GM invokes a rule (either game or module...