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"Skipper Dan" is one of the most realistically depressing songs I've ever heard. In a nutshell, the narrator is a dude who started out...

I voted a reluctant no. The idea is sound, but the execution is lacking. Combat in D&D takes too long as it is and adding yet another...

When I read that it was a "pirate" game in the OP I thought to myself that John Wick better not see that. He will most emphatically...

If you can afford to live in anything other than the fanciest of cardboard boxes, it means you're charging too much for your gaming...

Last summer I ran a one shot and a 72 year old woman joined the game along with her 68 year old husband. I'm certainly not going to...

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Have we reached the point the word jargon itself is no longer meaningful?

Jaron is specialized or technical language used by a particular group. Aside from roleplaying situations, how often do you tell someone...

This absolutely cracked me up. I don't think I've heard anyone refer to a horror game as liminal, so I'm not hitting the right places...

Just this last weekend I had to roll 12d8 to get the damage for a dragon's breath weapon. I'm not sure many dice one needs to be a dice...

Good luck. I expect any effort to eliminate jargon be about as effective as preventing euphemism treadmills or semantic change. At...

When I still cared about academia, when I would listen to someone speaking about philosophy they would typically define what they meant...

It was like I saw it coming! Yes, men often get rankled about the word problematic....oh it was supposed to be "me" :p

This one used to rankle men whenever I'd hear something referred to as problematic without being told what exactly the problematic part...

Sometimes on Reddit I see people post about a TTRPG in a thread that's about CRPG and vice versa. When it comes to Cyberpunk, since the...