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I think its worth looking at this as a form of business disruption and an opportunity reconfigure how games are made and distributed...

Most printers/manufacturers don't ship directly to customers for you. They're not set up as fulfillment centres. They simply make your...

When the first edition came out, most of my gaming friends snapped it up and played Shadows Over Bögenhafen. It was really something fresh.

The art, the tone, magazine support, and the tie-in to the minis game certainly did not hurt, either. Especially in a pre-Net release.

Currently working on a Caucasus Mountain themed region, inspired by Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. From what I’m finding out, any...

Probably I have read it. It was much discussed several years ago. But yes, I agree. It also makes me think about the handful of old...

This is a good point about discoveries. Often we fall into the trap of imagining that we know 95% or 99% of the details of these...

Yes. But as I pointed out also, that's become a part of "D&D-centric" design that influenced both tabletop and computer RPGs. RPGs then...

Well the problem is that it's pop-history "medieval", and specifically Anglosphere-centric pop history. So the further you get away from...

I have run the last two fantasy campaigns in Europe, there are a lot of good maps for it, such as this one: Usually run in Eastern...

I think the metaphor needs a little more to it than simply eurocentricism. D&D is more "western-centric." There is a distinct absence...

Because it makes for less dense lore. But if you want to get diverse and deep, Europe in the 1100s was as varied as they come.

A very good explanation of the tariffs by a mathematician:

Really? Fact of life in the Pacific Northwest.

I was thinking about that myself. The US has significant lumber resources, much of which haven't been utilized as a result of...