Recent content by Belen

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 draw me to Daggerheart.

Cypher System (and The Strange) I am surprised no mentioned it. It has modern, sci-fi, and fantasy rules. The mechanics are clean. In fact, my Strange campaign spent 3 months in the FireFly universe. I think Vaesen could also work.

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 articles tend to be full of spin. The idea seemed decent, at first, but never worked out in practice. Some major OA publishers tried to say that folks needed to...

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 pays is north of $3,000/paper now. Publishers have been working with universities to create read and publish deals that give institutions a set number of "free"...

OA proponents believe that science should be free. It gained traction in the early 2000s by stating the government funded research should be freely available. That it not a bad goal and big publishers were charging out the nose for access so it was easy to demonize the industry. Instead of...

It is BS because the government is not paying for peer review and publication. Even foundations like Gates are now refusing to pay OA fees. The OA folks want to bring it all in house now and have only government or institutions pay for all the peer review and production services, which is why...

Paper mill detection still needs a person to check and follow up just like ithenticate plagiarism detection. The peer review issue is serious. Many journals are looking at AI to replace finding reviewers and many reviewers are illegally using AI to review. Many younger scientists no longer...

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 already using it for integrity and paper mill detection. I have even seen models for AI peer review.

I made more than the senior leadership as a contractor. (I had multiple clients) They just cannot pay me those rates because then I would never get a "raise." Yes, I am looking elsewhere and I have several companies that have reached out.

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 and replace editorial assistants with AI within 5. This, while slashing my pay by 30% and increasing my workload. I get to stay though because they want my...

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 get 3d minis for Sigil.

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 right for those backers but JG was not obligated to make the product. JG is a near non entity with most modern gamers. This is not going to magically turn...

The have the Complete book of Necromancers: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16942/dmgr7-the-complete-book-of-necromancers-2e You could look into the Deathslayer kit which specializes in hunting undead.

Not according to the ToS. A moral debt, I could argue.