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Acquire, from Boardgamegeek description "In Acquire, each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock. As the businesses grow with tile placements, they also start merging, giving the majority stockholders of the acquired business sizable bonuses, which can...

My gaming group is composed of middle aged parents, we loved the original campaign. I ran the game with a theme of restoration and redemption. The conclusion to the story was recovering a magical memory gem from the green dragon's hoard. The gem was given to Agatha the Banshee which redeemed her...

Your Glorantha may vary is a core theme of Runequest. So it is with Traveller & its many editions & variants. When I search on Drivethrurpg for 'System: Traveller' there 2238 items in the list.

If I were to run a Traveller campaign I would use Cortex Classic as that is the preferred scifi system that my group uses.

Please forgive me for a quick digression. Traveller is one of the earliest rpgs, the first rulebooks were A5 little black books which gave a rough outline of what a story might feel. There were no starter campaigns like Lost Mine of Phandelver. It was assumed that the ref & players would make it...

Good luck in your recruitment drive. It is a promising sign that you can pay good benefits.

This is a twitch stream that is AI driven with questions from the chat, answers are given by AI versions of famous people. Imagine you are the DM and you want to add in players based on famous people. How about if you want to play with a group of people based on generic gamers, I want a...

The price of using AI is dropping fast, but when you can go through many conversations over months of gameplay time, API usage of $0.02 can quickly add up. Perhaps a monthly all in fee for the game would absorb the compute costs...

I accept your points on the website and impact on education. I am in my 50s and recall how the marking of exams & papers in the UK was a closely guarded secret. No one wanted to explain how it would be marked, having an AI be able to explain at the root level why one paper scored higher than...

What if the AI could read your mind and then present a story that fit your emotional needs and energy level? A different feel for casual, tactical, strategic, indie storytellers. A different energy level for introverts or extroverts. In case twitter is broken or just collapsed in the future.

This tweet comes from the 14th Feb. It considers the range of reactions to encountering chatgpt. https://thecleverest.com/gpt3-is-just-spicy-autocomplete/ In case the twitter image does not load.

If you are interested in a history of roleplaying, please consider Designers & Dragons by Shannon Appelcline. It is US focused but has sections on UK companies.

If you want to read and experience UK specific gaming culture then search for UK Fanzines from the 80s & 90s. White Dwarf Magazine used to do a lot of pieces on all types of games. Issue 100+ moved their editiorial focus towards GW product. A lot of UK fanzines, gaming magazines are out of...