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I tend to agree but the use of white space is a hot topic in the RPG design space.. I'd says avoid the miniscule gutters and margins of...

The Drugs.

Don't overdo the gutters. A while back, I purchased a PDF to find that two thirds of each page was unused white space (the left and...

It's right here. There's specifically a power that covers the classic Beastmaster archetype (though animal companions are non-combatants...

I was really looking forward to the ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) tabletop RPG. It was successfully Kickstarted in 2019, but then...

I watched one on BritBox a little while ago called Dalgliesh, based on PD James detective novels. British murder mystery fare but well...

Forgot one! Death in Paradise

True Detective (forget season 2, the others are good) Pushing Daisies (very quirky) City Homocide (Australian procedural) If you're...

Only Murders in the Building does good season-long mysteries. Poker Face does a nice twist on the standard mystery procedurals.

There's an old Polish proverb that says "there are many good shows to watch and then there is Banacek". Columbo has already been...

Columbo is a classic, and it has a spiritual successor in Elspeth. I don’t think the latter is as good- the pacing is a bit rushed- but...

Not necessarily.

I'm a sucker for a good television mystery series. Currently, my two favorites are Murdoch Mysteries (an alt-history series with a focus...

Not necessarily. It really depends on how free-form the DM (and the players) are willing to play without requiring dice rolls to do...

For what it's worth, I've seen people who knew the elder Bob who say he would be appalled by his son's and grandson's feeds.