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On "respecting the tarot," it should be noted that the true purpose of the tarot is the play of trick taking games. Much of the so...

1) Skill system doesn't cover all the tasks someone can purpose to do, leading to squinting as to what skill should cover what. 2) Skill...

That's a good point. I think that's a big part of why it's becoming increasingly common again (decades ago it was very common too)...

I think there’s also a solid element of “didn’t do the research, or at least no research around anything I wasn’t interested in” with a...

Yeah I think a lot of this comes from authors coming at the issue of worldbuilding "backwards" as it were. I.e. instead of thinking...

Yesterday I learned that being right across from a burning semi when the gas tank explodes is a bad idea. A semi carrying Teslas...

We went to see the play version of The Daughter of Time last week and it made me realise just how much the opening events of A Game of...

So I have finished "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson! I think its quite the long time ago that I consumed a 700 page book that...

Kingdom and Alchemy of Souls come to mind immediately. There’s also a metric ton of non-medieval fantasy, more urban fantasy (KPop...

It’s worth noting that many US private schools, despite being (or indeed because they are) much younger than many UK public schools, are...

Even posher, actually. Public schools are an an elite tier of private school, basically the Ivy League of private schools - i.e. old...

I’m going to assume that Satine has that accent since she imprinted romantically on Obi-Wan when they were teenagers, and that Bo-Katan...

Are you suggesting that Mandalorians aren’t all space Kiwis? Let’s not mock Din’s speech impediment! Or Sabine’s, or Bo-Katan’s, or the...

Yes, it’s very possible that accents mean nothing at all (or at least nothing reliable or predictable) in SW, which is completely fine.

Yes, the term dates back to when such schools (Eton, Harrow etc, so the 15th century or so) were the main ones open to the public rather...