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There's a ton of other rules-lite superhero rpgs that offer that exact experience. Kenson said (in the 4e announcement) that while there...

That's true. We started work in early 2011 on what 5e could be. At the same time, I had to make the case that: Having an active...

That's because discussion of 5.5 is an Orwellian hellscape where up is down, bad is good, and more complicated is simplified. I'll...

Video games are the kings of " this mechanic does this specific thing and no more". They're the ones with tunnel vision here. This...

Yeah, I have a very hard time with that example. Everything in my experience as a player - experience that’s not on the character sheet...

I mean, was it? I'm guessing "No" because, for my money, that's deeply bizarre and counter-intuitive, not "very simple". It also...

While consumers are better protected in the EU specifically (the EU is not the whole of Europe), that has limitations, especially during...

There are book remainder houses that pay pennies on the dollar for stock being blown out, typically because a publisher closes or the...

Sure. But for something to be fraud, unfair contract terms, collusion, etc, you have to be found guilty or liable, at least in the USA...

When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and...

You assume that the size of the audience would stay the same if these other games left the market. IMHO, that's fallacious. That aside...

Just a note here - I work in finance at my day job and the notion that a UCC-1 filing would significantly eat into profit margins is...

I think depending on the project that can make complete sense. Especially if you're not interested in anything but the final product and...

For a Kickstarter involving multiple millions of dollars, the updates have been exceptionally sparse and frankly unnecessarily limited...

I think the shift from pre-2020 to post-2020 was pretty stark, not only in design but also in brand management. The concept of...