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Livestreaming as always Friday at 2pm UK time (9am Eastern)! We'll be talking about Echohawk's latest "How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway?" article, discussing whether TTRPGs are a source of mental health, romance, and friendship, checking in on the Gygax Memorial Table, and more! How Much...

Loud, has been my main takeaway. Hard to hear what’s going on.

It’s not a binary choice between solitary hobbies and TTRPGs, though. Lots of hobbies are cooperative. Rock climbing, scuba diving, team sports, amateur theatre, rock bands, the list goes on. And, arguably, with higher stakes, many of these might form even stronger bonds.

Well, except they aren’t a fantasy saga. They’re lots of different fantasy sagas made by one publisher. That’s a bit like saying all of Penguin Random House’s books are one giant saga.

Yeah. Basically, shared hobbies are likely socially beneficial, whatever they are. It’s not the hobby itself, it’s the social experience. So I bet we’d see similar results for a survey of pretty much any group hobby.

Good god yes. And it may be the best RPG ever made. It’s certainly my favourite. It was made by WEG, was the first ever dice pool system, and was the precursor to the d6 system which powered things like Star Wars. The Ghostbusters RPG was one of the most influential games in the hobby’s history.

That's an interesting use of the word "obscure". :)

In a survey of 1,000 TTRPG players in the US, StartPlaying, a tabletop gaming matchup service for professional GMs, found that mental health, romance, and friendships featured highly in the social roles that such games help to facilitate. With 76% of players saying that TTRPGs have helped them...

Too much info puts me off. If the trailer is basically a Cliff Notes version of the film, I don’t need to watch the film. Also, if the trailer shows all the funny lines or all the best stunts, that makes the film an anticlimactic experience. I think — give me the premise. The genre. Show me...

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I can usually convert things on the fly so I often use stuff from different games.

Pathfinder 2E, I imagine.