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I think there are a few solutions to the "used to struggle to fight gobos, but now they are easier to kill than insects" type tall...

Certainly a problem with meteoric tall advancement (if that's the right word) is the way all the dangers you faced 10 levels ago are...

I've come to prefer broad advancement. If I am using a system with tall advancement, i prefer its not too tall. For example, Id prefer...

That is a fantastic point and well worth making. Lots of point buy systems use non-linear (I hesitate to say geometric) costs for...

I don't have much comment on this but as a general rule of design I would say it is an unbreakable law that if your CharGen uses point...

I'd argue that they focus on both. But probably leaning more towards tall. There are elements like gaining some ability score...

Advancement - gaining experience, power, improved stats, other resources - in RPGs is always a bit of a tricky one, because it really...

There are other fruits which sometimes digest invasive insects, ja? Like pineapples.

Yes, but few are like figs, in that the digested insects are integral to the reproductive process.

Interestingly, when I Googled whether figs are vegan, the AI insisted that they were because the majority of commercially grown figs are...

Yep. That’s why there’s a debate as to whether or not figs are vegan.

Reading Cassandra’s stories can give you many such moments, yeah. :) Probably the Cassandra Khaw book least likely to give you a...

Today I learned about the symbiosis and co-evolution of figs and wasps, about how the female wasp is impregnated in the egg before...

The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw is not my usual bag - a dark visceral body and existential horror Scholomance story - but it...

One minor RPG related hobby of mine is reading and summarising RPGs, often changing the rules a little to my preferences. So I did that...