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For me, the important thing is that a game has a strong narrative reason for have different species. For the most part, D&D fails at...

There's got to me some axiom stating every conversation about TTRPGs in general will eventually lead to Dungeons & Dragons. I thought...

Al Capone funded soup kitchens and Pablo Escobar was considered a saint by many of the poor people in Colombia because he spent so much...

I mean, you can't really have it both ways. The PCs simply, factually, are treated differently in every edition of D&D, because in no...

Yeah, I wouldn't agree that it "shuts down" those concepts. But it does undeniably, and dramatically, reduce their frequency. I think...

Bingo. The non-human species in most works of fiction are there because they serve some sort of narrative purpose and I feel as though...

That's an excellent question. I think the answer is that we don't actually need them most of the time. It is perhaps key to remember...

I think there must be something more here. If culture was such a broad palette to work from, then what do we even need fantasy species...

"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!" I'm certainly not one to quibble too much on definitions, but I'd have...

Then what are you doing playing a game with classes? You should be playing GURPS.

What game or games are we talking about here? GURPS, Savage Worlds, D&D, and other games treat species in their own way.

Kind of weird for a kid’s game, right?

I loved it.

Don't leave us in suspense. What did you think?

Now can we go over why Palladium likes to add ™ and © to words in so many of their publications?