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As a New Yorker, every city needs a New Jersey; a designated "other" who represents the antithesis of their urban culture.

If we're going to be doing licensed D&D beyond MTG, I'd like to start with brands Hasbro already has; give me Transformers!

Part of this may be that NYC is particularly a tough market to run a game store in, but I've been trying to teach my mom to play D&D and...

IIRC you can mass produce small metal balls without industrialization; the process was used for musket balls in the 18th century. You'd...

I can't be the only one who pronounces his name like "Pasta Fagiole" can I?

A long-running TV show and a long-running campaign are very similar. After a while you do run out of all the plots you could potentially...

I'm not going to talk about game design. I'm going to talk about culture. Children's media started taking off heavily in the 1980s with...

The hollow warden ranger gets phantom steed and I was playing around with some neat abuses of that spell, but frankly find steed would...

Rangers would be unnecessary in a low magic setting because the only threats to civilization in the wilderness would be mundane or close...

Unless we're talking about a setting like Dark Sun where there are downsides to casting spells, or Forgotten Realms where the ability to...

That depends on what is being fought. You don't need magic to kill a human. You might need magic to kill a dragon: I'd say in most D&D...

For me, the notion of a "spell-less ranger" only works in a mundane world. Experts at surviving in the wilderness of magical, fantasy...

I spend a lot of time on the toilet thinking, as do most professionals in the science fiction and fantasy industries

I like Dark Sun's lore and I can respect the literary genre it belongs in, but I personally don't want to play or DM a game in a "dying...

Art without hyperbole is just industrial design. If we're to consider games as art, we must be able to make grand sweeping statements...