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My local experience (just a person with a lot of friends and colleagues who play D&D) is that only really hyper-invested people really...

I think 2024 has struggled to establish a coherent identity. Purely anecdotal evidence on my part, but some things I've heard from...

The ogl fiasco badly derailed the playtesting and did a lot of damage to the idea of meaningful change as opposed to "[many people]...

I think there are a few factors in play. First, 5e 2014 benefitted from three external boosts: Stranger Things, Critical Role, and...

As for revisionist Westerns, I think of it more as the “serious” Westerns revival produced after Spaghetti Westerns and things like...

“The Oregon Trail” is one of the oldest computer games - first version in 1971. It was the first thing I did on a computer - an Apple...

It'll probably be good, but we haven't exactly seen, say, World War II films come roaring back despite him making some really wonderful...

Well, that's certainly one reasonable example of revisionism. However, you can also question the history with more accurate history, or...

While I don't really view D&D as a western, mainly because it shares so few of the tropes, I do agree it shares a debt. As the Old West...

Let me get on my soapbox. D&D owes a huge debt to westerns. Real medieval villages didn't have a general store and a tavern. Everyone...

Usually a revisionist western is one that subverts the traditional conventions found in westerns such as the inclusion of morally...

The author of Boot Hill and the Fear of Dice describes it as “the best political intrigue system [he has] ever used.” I baked violence...

The owners of small TTRPG companies don't have personal money to 'put in'. Nobody will buy their products for their actual value...

Not a lawyer … but if it’s an open-and-shut case that the viability of the business depends on, I wonder why an attorney working on...

How do these gofundmes work, the goal keeps going up whenever it has been reached it seems? At a minimum there was a 9k goal and a 16k...