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Yeah we’ve discussed this before. I definitely agree there’s an inherent problem for the industry if the biggest game and the biggest...

Ever played an 80s dungeon crawler without a manual? I did, still had fun despite there being no story.

Cool cover art or binding certainly only adds something to the experience, both on the visual and tactile level. Cool maps can add...

All novels would be improved in some way by having cool cover art...but a great novel can have minimalistic or even terrible cover art...

Now Ken is telling stories about the Buck Rogers game, from a first person perspective about that time and what it was like and how...

The survey is open.

But I can think of a number of RPG video games without any story...?

Again, I'm not sure that it's necessary to qualify this specifically for RPGs. I think this is pretty solidly true of games writ large...

The quibble is not that we necessarily disagree with your premise. I guess I can only speak for myself, but my quibble is that this is...

another issue could be that people do not like vancian casting in the abstract, but that does not mean they will prefer your specific...

I read a lot as a child and as a youth and asked myself 2 years ago - why do even 1 book a month seem like a big task? So i changed a...

As someone on the other end of making such a thing, I agree--I never saw how that would work. However, I do recall it being brought up...

Mist-ic. Ravenloft has mists. Ravenloft confirmed!

In their analysis of what went wrong with 4E reception, a key point the designers have noted was mistaking the "applause for the end of...

Could be.