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You're thinking of Mark Mercer.

I've described the primary fantasy at the core of D&D before as "violence can be sanctified and solve problems." It is not only okay to...

Your biases here aren't the problem. The fact you have to bring it up any time you see anything that smacks of it, however, a bit is...

I don't is the thing! I either find a base map and maybe add assets if I'm doing a digital map for an encounter, or I hand draw a rough...

Right, we're leaving out steps. The proposed structure is creative agenda->design goal->mechanic. Pointing out a mechanic doesn't serve...

I've been consistently frustrated with how difficult it is to go from a low detail to a highly detailed map cleanly. Ideally, I'd like a...

I'm becoming more empathetic to the stance we should avoid labeling mechanics with agendas. They end up serving as synecdoches for the...

Changing rule paradigm, I can sort of get abord with. Changing stat block for the same creature however should be completely...

I'm not suggesting those things are equivalent. Personally, I'm perfectly happy with the "fighters can just wade through lava" position...

Is this not the whole sim point? The mechanics are a concrete representation of something that can be understood, and there is no...

To some degree, isn't this a good problem to have? Seeing aside scry and fry, I think it's probably for the best that the world have a...

He lowers to a seat on the table, hanging his legs off its edge and bending closer to the crowd with a conspiratorial gesture. “Come...

Plan is to release the Night of the Knife one-shot and the Campaign Quartet together. Night of the Knife is actually built around these...

I feel like I have had somewhat similar conversations relating to the label "simulationism". Where traits that I do not see as falling...

Consider I know and like doing X to Q Y is unacceptable because it is R Q and R are differentiated on some account. Labelling them...