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I feel this has to be true. Storytelling is  incredibly limited otherwise. Players and DMs should be trusted to make these decisions...

Nothing. I have more books already than time to play. I’d run 2e again or Savage Worlds, Vaesen, Cypher…. I just do not see anything to...

Cypher System (and The Strange) I am surprised no mentioned it. It has modern, sci-fi, and fantasy rules. The mechanics are clean. In...

How about a nice game of chess?

Public posting, public comment has been tried and the results are not good. Authors rarely feel the need to revise in response. The...

How do you think peer review is funded now? It is funded by those subscriptions and Open Access fees. The average OA fee that an author...

OA proponents believe that science should be free. It gained traction in the early 2000s by stating the government funded research...

It is BS because the government is not paying for peer review and publication. Even foundations like Gates are now refusing to pay OA...

Paper mill detection still needs a person to check and follow up just like ithenticate plagiarism detection. The peer review issue is...

The off-shoring in the industry has been awful over the last 10 years. If they can find a way to use AI, then they will. They are...

I made more than the senior leadership as a contractor. (I had multiple clients) They just cannot pay me those rates because then I...

Yeah, the CEO of the company that just bought my contracts just told me he intends to offshore all editor positions in the next 15 years...

You can see the direction they wanted to go with the digital mini packs they have been releasing. They were going to charge us silly to...

Actually it's coming out of the backers pockets.

No. It’s not. A lot of folks are arguing that Goodman is paying off a debt that JG had. There was no debt. At most, it makes it morally...