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I maintain half of the problem with game systems is lack of, or insufficient blindtesting. And sometimes its selective; people who run...

AI art is a completely different animal, mostly because of the fact that the AI is replicating actual work, i.e. the strokes of a brush...

In all my years of gaming I've never understood boasting about being a "killer DM." It's extraordinarily easy to kill PCs or to take...

Possibly also depends on circumstances. With my current role playing group where we've been playing on and off together for 20 plus...

Thank you! The charts are great and Ben did terrific work putting them together, but often they are better understood with more...

It's interesting to hear about the ebb and flow of managerial styles from the TSR days, and I can't help but compare them to the ebb and...

I don't recall working from a calendar or having to create one in editing because of obvious inconsistencies. If those detailed notes...

My concern is that WotC will spoil the setting for a new generation of players. They can’t take away the old books and lore, but they...

The head of Books after late 92 was not terribly interested in coordinating with Games, and at least some of the authors he brought in...

The plan from the start with Dark Sun was for the RPG and fiction content to be related. Mary Kirchoff, then head of the Book...

Yes, I worked in the Book Department from 1988 to 1994 and was at one time series editor for both the Ravenloft and Realms fiction...

That's only true if you take the most cynical approach possible and the products do not stand alone, if you need to buy the fiction to...

Thread died down a little, so I guess I'll say some stuff I've been thinking about. At some point early in the thread someone said...

I finished the audiobook of The Stand, and loved it all over again. I also encountered a good insight into a common criticism of King...

I mean. I've eaten worse pizzas.