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Exactly! If you want to write an RPG, write an RPG. I dunno, I think there's a line between someone creating an RPG and someone...

Which, honestly, OSR is the space for. But just publish it as your fantasy heartbreaker.

Any time someone talks about "fixing" a game system, I kinda tune out, because most of the time I'm about to hear some person's...

I started playing D&D at age 9. And I wonder, today, would I be able to understand the current edition of D&D well enough to run games...

A spell? One spell? That cracks me up for some reason.

Fans still have PTSD from BECMI and "Advanced" D&D being actually different games . . . Using the terms "basic" and "advanced" probably...

I think it can work in a modular form -- the 3E Unearthed Arcana is still my gold standard for sets of optional rules, and excels here...

Lin Carter has the pacing of a Formula 1 Race! But I think it's important to note that he was a fan, and it shines through in his...

These days, I'm absolutely going to reach for Cyberpunk Red. I can grab some pregens and come up with a quick scenario in no time. If...

I normally am not that way, but every once in a while, I read a book that is so profoundly good, that I feel pressure as to what I want...

Finally finished Gary Alan Fine's Shared Fantasy, which closes with some more dense sociology, where the beginning and middle of the...

While I see what you're saying at the end, I care much less than you seem to about whether the book I read tonight will be as good as...

A Basic edition of D&D that runs up to 10th level.

I finished reading Cameron Reed's The Fortunate Fall. That was a book so good that I was left struggling what to read next. It had so...

"Play Well With Others" (Your #15) is to me (by far) the most important rule of TTRPGs. Good list, BTW.