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Well ... not quite. The transition from hunters-gatherer to farmer meant that land became valuable, so the optimal strategy for a...

My impression is that we're past the peak of the AI hype cycle. I don't see as many people trying to use it everywhere and there is a...

MSH (in 1988); the first was Basic D&D.

I enjoy the setting and inspiration in Art of Wuxia, as well as the art style. I have used it for inspiration and source material in...

That one's on my tbr list, may need to bump it higher

Whoops, duplicate post. I agree that Doppelgänger is a fascinating and worthwhile read.

Hailey Piper keeps getting better. The opening of All the Hearts You Eat: The story seems to focus on at least two young trans women...

Finished Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, which is about how our author (a Canadian who writes about equality and climate change) sometimes...

Well you've accuracy described the players at my table...

I’m sure folks once said the same thing about printed books. eReaders have saved me a fortune, a ton of space, dramatically lowered my...

The obvious model here is Dogs in the Vineyard, though of course it’s not a OSR/NSR game. You escalate through conflict stages (from...

I also think this is a good idea - you could definitely take the core of Nimble and do a 4E style game with it, though of course you’d...

It seems to very much want to exist in the space of making 5E even more of a tactical combat game while also making it way, way simpler...

We’ve now seen Moonrise Kingdom (on Tubi) and it’s excellent, so it’s going in at number 2.

One issue I’ve noticed in restaurant burgers is temperature - everything is well delivered but the only source of heat is the burger...