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It's far better than Paramount being the buyer. They've already turned CBS News and 60 Minutes into a joke in their pursuit of mergers...

Rising from the Last War plus Forge of the Artificer ia fairly comparable to the new FR books, when combined...and Rising from the Last...

It came across to me as a bit of an unnecessary dig - not much related to the book you were discussing. This is a short, cheap, book...

If I had to make a list of Eberron's most significant and important contributions to D&D as a whole, it would be: 1) Its approach to...

Very good review. Far more comprehensive and logical than the other review floating around which seemed to have issues with the Eberron...

I’m 35 minutes into the video where Jim turns into a frog and licks his bulbous eye and other jokes but I haven’t kept up with the...

If it lets me watch Superman and Casablanca on Netflix, I'll consider this a good thing. Netflix is well run, and WB is a dumpster...

Netflix has triumphed in the bidding war for Warner Bros. and HBO, announcing a deal that could combine two of the three biggest...

What are common insults hurled at anyone we don't like?

I think that one major fact of Gygax's life that makes sense of his AD&D design decisions is his experience as an insurance adjuster. He...

I think this is wrong because the motivation (as far as we know) for Gygax was to model something, not create a useful or fun gameplay...

For TTRPGs, the problem here is that really simulating results are going to be better done with a computer. Like Oregon Trail, the...

To me, simulation is (mostly) creation/use of a systematically-driven model of something. The thing being simulated may not have much...

I don’t know if this is correct or even helpful but maybe simulation is the overarching term for a combination of abstractions that...

This raises* the question: what is the line between an abstraction and a simulation mechanic? *not "begs." That's not what "begs the...