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The costume for Lanterns has hit the interwebs. they look like they're going late mediaeval with it.

In fact, I hope there's some reticence in involving cosmic level poweer like the ring...when dealing with small town stuff.

Based on that trailer, I'd watch the naughty word out of this even if there was no ring use.

Kieckhafers "Magic in the Middle Ages" is an interesting read because although we know what is real and whatnot from our enlightened 21st century perspective, back in them olden days they did not. And they didn't have the 'vocabulary' to distinguish things we take for granted (causation, germ...

Sure, we may not be magical thinkers. There are plenty of them out there. Those that believe drinking pineapple juice can cure cancer. Or how there are mind-controlling microchips in vaccines. The point being that if you don’t know exactly how something works, it may as well be magic. I know...

that's not bad, though it depends on perspective. A magical thinker is going to push that perspective. ] I do not know

some very accessible magic... The Hobbit: “I know something of the magic of all kinds of things… " LOTR “I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves or Men or Orcs, that was ever used for such a purpose.” "Speak Friend and Enter"

For con games, I have usually resorted back to TSRs Marve Superhero Games. For One Shots, though (slightly different as I may know the players), I tend to use Twilight 2000 4th edition with some homebrewed superhero rules. I just like the lethality of it. When folks say they want to emulate...

Jorune would certainly fit into the post-apoc part of the genre and Earth-tec, while rare, does level the playing field a little when being faced with a gang of Dytes.

How many of those games are still in print. Jorune is technically in print but only because you can order remaindered books from Chessex.

Drifting Skyland is a concept that seems to doom a lot of games. Like they just don’t catch on.

Pendragon doesn't do it badly...and I'd err on the side of Aquellarre if I wanted to change that out.

For fantasy worlds we can maybe forgive a little. In TODL we have cold lands at the top and bottom

I guess because of the eurocentric nature of the industry. My first fantasy game, Tales of Distant Lands, is heavily influenced by A Wizard of Earthsea and I'm very explicit that it's an archipelago in a wider world, that everyone you meet will be brown skinned and there's no sharp noses. The...

As it only takes one GM to run a game for a group of players they have enslaved, it's hard to measure in that way. I'd say it's dead when it stops growing (a biological definition if ever there was one). That kindly means that even super old games like MSPE or Jorune are likely still growing...