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The Paizo Pathfinder mini gazetteers are usually great for being fairly contained areas with multiple sites and factions all based...

https://x.com/chrisperkinsdnd/status/702518035622461440 So, simple question. Where would it be? I'm not some kind of super Realms...

You know all those economic sanctions on Russia a couple of years ago that were supposed to cripple their economy? It didn't. Because it...

Ironically, this is exactly the problem that the tariffs are (one part of) a strategy to resolve. The economic incentives to socialize...

The only recent(ish) WotC book I own was printed in China. They USED to print in the US. It doesn't look like they do anymore. But I...

As an aside, on the Steve Jackson board games comment, I don't have my board games handy because I just relocated less than a year ago...

I'm not much interested in novelty in rules... like kinky new dice tricks. But I like settings that have at least some element of...

I want the tropes. It helps me create characters that work within the fiction. There are enough tropes out there that I don’t feel like...

Yup, I'm pretty happy with a handful of tried and true tropes, recombined in endless configurations. Think of all the songs you can...

Tropes, 100%. I got tired of people thinking their subversions were clever a decade ago.

I'd prefer a game that does something well, rather than one that does something new.

Glad I didn't have to be the one to say it first. The PR on this story is deeply irritating to me. These aren't dire wolves at all...

Because fantasy as it was conceived in the late 60s and early 70s; Gygax's formative years on the genre, was not so strictly defined...

Endgame. But I honestly probably like Dark Knight and Winter Soldier better. But, arguably, because they're not actually superhero...

Yes, it's tedious. I hadn't played D&D per se since playing 3.5 back... oh, as recently as 2016, I think, until picking up 5e. It feels...