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Like D&D 5E and you want to remain compatible with your existing system, but you want more tactical depth and character options, try...

Well, I think that's the thing: Fringe is "ongoing/permanent casual" and also involves greater interest in RPGs as a whole, be it...

Back to the OP, and to address it more directly, as someone more in the 1970s, my interest emerged around the same time. I was...

I agree with you and Pratchett, with a few significant caveats. One, see my Babe Ruth analogy above. No single baseball player changed...

Over the years I have come to realize that I firmly exist in a kind of nebulous, liminal zone of RPG fandom that could be described as...

I say this as a huge Tolkien fan, but I just don't think this question/inquiry is as relevant in 2025 as it was several decades ago. Or...

It sounds like they're splitting up material to optimize chances that people buy both. "Most of X type of material is in this book, but...

If you're into X, then play Dragonbane. If you're into Y, then play Shadowdark. If you're into Z, then play Pathfinder. And so on...

Well it has been awhile--maybe never--that I'd consider not buying a book based on the cover art, but here we are.

There's this common but, in my view, fallacious notion that "big ideas" science fiction must be the sort of hard science fiction that...

There's a long running debate about what makes a good science fiction story. For some, the science must be accurate otherwise you have...

It is a fair point, though I think the situation is far more complex than simply "asking ourselves why we reacted to a work the way we...

I paused when I read the weird "checking political orientation before taking video maker seriously" aside - as if any take on D&D has to...

Depends what you mean by old, but I still re-watch Seinfeld and the Office - the two peaks of sitcom comedy, imo. The Twilight Zone is...