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Or the actors just changing it. If I recall correctly Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher famously dunked on Lucas' writing and changed a...

Yeah, there’s a lot of toxic masculine “someone else made me do it” self-pitying and blaming others in the monster’s narrative. This is...

Both characters are flawed and ultimately selfish. That's part of the horror of the story, what makes it compelling. I'm also reminded...

Whether they literally read their stories aloud as they type, there are authors I'm pretty sure hear their language in their heads. When...

Shelley was from an era that thought that people had to be taught moral codes, so the monster heading out into the world without decades...

I wanted to use the Egg of Coot, but in my last Greyhawk campaign (which was a quasi-sandbox campaign) the PCs never went there.

I finished reading Shelley's Frankenstein. This time around, I have a suspicion both Frankenstein and the Creature are unreliable...

John Scalzi has blogged about how writing for audio has affected his writing in general. As usual with him, it’s friendly and...

Anytime someone tries to tell me THAC0 was too complicated, my immediate response is "my stoner friends could figure it out when we were...

On paper, I probably split 60-40% in favor of planning to improvising. I always deliberately leave myself holes in my session outline...

At this point I'm sure 5e has overtaken 2e as far as hours played, but until the, 2e was tops. From about 1989-1993, I was running 2e...

It's quite likely that if I were to look at all the hours of D&D I've played, the majority of those hours would be with 2e. When I...

What I'm looking for is not 'the player does the thing the PC is trying to do' but 'the player describes evocatively the thing the PC is...

I dunno, if a PC wants to make a Stealth check sneak up on a guard in a chamber, I think the game becomes infinitely more evocative and...