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Don't let small sample size make you pivot too quickly either. I just played in a live play where a party of four very good 1st level...

Finally finished Bowling Alone, and had our second book club meeting on it yesterday. Overall it's very good, though the original final...

Read "The Looking Glass War" by John Le Carre. Ooph, this was a tough read. I think this is a bit underrated because it is more...

If you have a couple of hours, the movie Nefarious was based somewhat on the Screwtape Letters. The Canterbury Tales had some good ones...

I just finished reading C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, and find myself wishing I'd picked it up years ago. That I didn't was...

Confirmed. I now eagerly await the second book in the planned trilogy, and hope it doesn't take too long. And then, knowing The Raven...

As an addendum, it has only just clicked for me that Arthur Collins, who wrote the taxation article, is the same person as the "Rev...

Yeah, the game designers have ghe next two years of books mapped out, but careful forethought and planning isn't soooo evident on the...

Wow, you’ve made Draw Steel sound absolutely fascinating to me as a conceptual resource for something like QuestWorlds! Thank you! Gonna...

Right lol? Of all the things you can accuse Draw Steel! of being generic is not one! In fact, I think that's actually one of the factors...

Critical Role is using D&D 2024 for Campaign 4. Truly the Golden Age of TTRPGs is dead.

I'd suspect the reason the universal lane looks empty is that, in fact, its pretty full in that a couple of game systems dominate that...

The former still exist. They may not be extremely well known, but Heroes and Hardships wasn't that long ago and had a successful enough...

One of my colleagues is an older gamer like me (started in the 1980s), and we were talking about different RPGs the other day. He said...

It is the Lingua Franca, for sure.