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My grandad had a Triumph.

The bike isn't named "Triumph". Triumph Engineering made motorcycles from 1898 to 1983. Their "Model H" from WWI is widely considered...

Standing on the shoulders of people who happened to be there at the beginning. There are only so many ways you can invent the wheel...

I've said before "Some people just want to know where their chalk marks are", and that can be a real problem if you want your players...

Oh I'm sure that's true. I don't think we'd have got here if not, and I don't think it's any accident the GMing advice in virtually...

I think it’s fair to say that the characterisation of Scrooge does overlap with Victorian English anti-Semitic tropes (basically...

Yeah, zines like Different Worlds, and Alarums and Excursions, had this kind of discourse and advice in them- people writing to...

I mean, is it "WotC's direction", or is it that 5E has simply run its course? Or some combination thereof? Or is there even no...

There was also the 'zine scene. All of these debates about how to run/play D&D from adversarial (even extremely so) to far more...

I’m glad it’s not just me!

It sure can be yeah! Especially when they suddenly decide they're "enjoying the ride" but actually, I'm really wanting them to make...

It’s pretty hard to avoid if you want to discuss what makes a Christmas movie. Personally, I prefer an M R James ghost story (but only...

True, the term has come to mean something other than “the DM tells the players a story” - which there doesn’t seem to be a term for...

The Hadozee stuff was 100% Chris Perkins individually, because he thought it would be fun to have a Planet of the Apes reference but...