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I wouldn’t know. I’ve never written in any book I’ve ever owned. Notebooks, sure. Book books, never. Highlighters? In textbooks, sure...

Make them softcover, staple or coil bound, sans art, black & white, printed on low-quality paper, and dirt cheap. Then people might...

I sympathize, but I think the form would improve if we all got past that reluctance. I think people tend to confuse how RPG scenarios...

One of the big challenges I as a small time publisher has with the digital/physical approach is you basically have two completely...

Yeah, I half wrote out another point about how really adventure design is too rooted in the limitations of physical books, and...

I've never written a module and most that I've run have not been good from an "running accessibility" standpoint. That said I've thought...

A couple of the things you lined out are actually important in context, but this is why if you’re doing stuff for a publication, you...

I'll tell you what, my friends: I've read probably 100+ modules over my decades of gaming, but I'm writing my first one, and it is an...

Part of the problem is the decreased acceptance of the idea that some species are simply flat-out better at, or better suited for, some...

My favorite Seinfeld story is how Jason Alexander simply could not wrap his head around the character of George Costanza and why we...

I'm excited, I just wish I knew for what. It's not Kelvin, it doesn't sound like a film outing for any established television cast. So...

I mean ideas get into people's heads all sorts of ways, but I think if the two are connected it's because the origin source for both is...

I don't know. This is a dungeon I had made for Revenge of the Rat King last year, and I'm not seeing how it would be confusing.

Credit goes to Michael Sean Piper, who did it. He does a lot of maps like this.

It's hard to say. Sometimes 'too soon' is simply not relevant, or maybe the point. Some half-dozen years ago researchers uncovered a...