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Yes, since you have to travel an average of 300 miles a day for an Earth-sized planet (and that's in a straight line, so more like 500...

Not practical in my homebrew D&D setting. The world is too large, and most of it is unknown. There are no known places on most of it to...

Wow, that would be a hell of an ask even if you could still fly over the sea, it would basically destroy the UK, the US, and other...

The end of ep2 where the sea folk ‘return’ all the junk to the land was pretty cool. I don’t know how realistic in terms of worldwide...

Read Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, which I found out about from Disney+ of all places because the TV series adaptation is there. It’s...

I've been on a bit of a manga / manhwa kick lately. I've gone through all the existing English-translated volumes of The Eminence in...

There’s various answers to that. You could rule out summoning as well. It could be that the prize is simply not worthwhile to someone...

(I did wonder whether to put this under Pathfinder or one of the D&D forums but decided to put it here since the idea is...

It does indeed make a huge difference whether you use a waxy or floury potato - the former for gratin or fries, the latter for roast or...

It’s certainly hard to think of a bad potato. Boiled potatoes aren’t great. Croquette potatoes can be done badly, as can glue-like...

Scalloped potatoes are crazy delicious.

Crisps can be great with a sandwich or something. But they don't stand up as a pure showcase of potatoes the way most of these other...

Bah, the percentile die is a roll-under d20 with delusions of grandeur. Edition war! (More seriously, I remember a friend pointing this...

In my usual quest to play and complete two JRPGs a year, I’ve stalled on Tales of Graces f (Switch) at almost exactly the same place I...

I love the classic d6 (and it’s easily obtained for new players from board games etc) but the d4 is an unequalled caltrop, only matched...