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Cannot WAIT for this book and Divine Mysteries.

You'd probably love CASE & SOUL by Briar Sovereign and Bloodstone by Matteo Sciutteri - great explorations on trimmed down FitD.

People make emotional attachments to various nonliving things all the time. I'm not sure I'd call them "friends" but its absolutely a...

Also, this thread sure is 80 pages of arguing over if it's good or bad to know AC numbers or not which is kind of not remotely relevant...

As a cast member on a podcast I listen to once said, "breaking your hand in Call of Cthulhu has way more impact on the game than dying...

If you feel like you're being railroaded, talk to your GM about it. Presumably, given this GM is presumably a friend, you will be able...

It doesn’t bother me when players at my table don’t really know the rules, but I do believe that the rules should be transparent in...

In Burning Wheel, an action declaration of a moment of recognition - "Hang on, isn't that sword hanging over the tavern's bar exactly...

I mentioned those particular games - Burning Wheel, and 4e D&D with player-authored quests - because both permit and, indeed, encourage...

Yeah dude, I've read plenty of books on game studies. Certainly none of them care about the dictionary definition of the word, lol.

D&D ghouls are fairly intelligent, but are almost never depicted that way, other than the occasional ghoul cleric. I'm glad ghouls get...

Regarding ghouls: they're more in-tune with Lovecraft's ghouls, which DnD ghouls are also based on but clearly went in a different path...

Also: immersion exists only as an internal sensation with no defined definition. It is impossible for a game rule, or anything at all...

There's room for some differences in opinion here, but I stand by my opinion nothing good is served by erring on the side of being more...

Yeah, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about sharing the game details of known factors. The ogre in chainmail who’s...