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To be worth a damn as a designer, you need to know three key things: who you're writing for, what has worked for them in the past, and...

And I'm not seeing a single moral issue. All work is built on prior work in one fashion or another, creative, technological or (as RPGs...

In the US, it's blackletter law (that is, explicit in the text of the law) that the rules of a game cannot be copyright protected. It is...

On a 6 point scale of 0: theatrical improv 1: Rules Light 2: Rules Medium Light 3: rules Medium 4: Rules Medium Heavy 5: Rules Heavy. 6...

You think rules light games lack substance but the only ones you've ever played have been made at home? Bold of you to make definitive...

My metric was, until recently, $1 per hour per person... as I got about an hour of enjoyment for $1 in the arcade playing the few games...

encounter ≠ combat. Many encounters can be non-combat. Most fun one recently: Ron of Go, wandering merchant stoneman. He offered to...

My current game has no random encounters in core, but has some as setting elements. My typical game has significant numbers of random...

This is going to see some use... I love the variation of the not-quite-a-beholder...

It has been the tool of indoctrination for extremism of various types, both religious and political. In forcing the owners to put their...

I got picked on and roughed up in high-school (90s) because I was a "four eyed nerd" who liked fantasy and sci-fi and TTRPGs. At least...

Which was developed by a third party, initially published by Cubicle 7; when they saw the designers intended changes for 2e, said, "Not...

Canonically, under AD&D2, your god doesn't grant you your level 1 & 2 spells... Until 3rd level spells you deity only vaguely knows you...

Hasn't happened yet; several traveller groups were well amused by Q-ship ops.

Tuck was as violent as the rest of the Merry Men in the legends. More so in more modern retellings. Blessing the men to go and do...