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"Creating a fun game" is creating aimlessly, I think. That's not a meaningful goal. And there are a lot of examples of individual...

History, when I took my bachelor's in it, defined modern as "1965 to present" - that was in 1993 to 1996. We're definitely post-modern...

60 sessions? I generally get 40-49 per year. 1⅓ years, so 16 months. Personally, I can only think of one I have tolerated that long in...

Most palaces have turrets and gatehouses. They're there because they're always there... as the early palaces were inside fortifications...

Yeah. And you'll find me in the credits as a lead playtester. It's decent. If I had a group insisting on d20 system, I'd use it. I do...

When letting them pursue it makes your suvival dubious. It's as true IRL as in-game. There's a fine line between letting someone run...

Not familiar with that work. If one likes older editions of L5R, there's Legend of the Burning Sands, which is L5R 3rd revised in a...

Not fake - it was a palace, not a fortress. And as a palace it was serving the needs of HM Ludwig II. Until he was deposed. It was...

A lot more has to do with incompatible editions, with people conflating "Can be converted on the fly" with "is usable unmodified,"...

You guess incorrectly. I know all of this. The way they work in the game does not represent the way the Force works in the setting.

Same. For 2nd or 3rd (and presumably 4th, tho' I skipped 4th other than core; I was happy enough with 3) , it's a great adjunct. It's...

I grabbed 3 of RightKnightToFight's Daggerheart supps... from HeartOfDaggers.com. PWYW on 2 of them. Good Stuff. (should be, he's one of...

I think I might have given much different answers to some of the questions 30 years ago.