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One thing that's fascinating is that, while most of those spells existed back in 1e, the ways they functioned were very different...

The PCs in 5e also get exploration-negating spells/skills at a fairly low level that make the challenges of wilderness exploration moot...

The percentages on the Thief class really do stack the deck against them. And that's compounded by the fact that frequently failure has...

Table 1.1: Thief Advancement Table Experience PointsExperience Level6-Sided Dice for Accumulated Experience PointsLevel Title 0...

I really like “Hinterlands”. And in one sense, the Sprawl trilogy is about humanity losing first contact.

There's a lot of alien, existential dread in Gibson's writings. Whether it's the Tessier-Ashpools, Josef Virek, Wintermute, or the Loa...

Apropos of nothing, it would be very easy to make Neuromancer cosmic horror, if one were so inclined. As Ashpool tells Molly in part 4...

Or, for those of us that grew up with 1e, mispronouncing all those Gygaxian words.

You can tell the kids that learnt English playing DnD when they start talking about the encumbrance of their backpack. ;)

Ugh. I remember having an argument with a classmate that loved superheroes but considering D&D satanic how the two genres were so very...

I know that D&D has been getting all sorts of wide spread acceptance but, this was a new experience for me. I teach online English...

This was my experience too, as a gamer through the 80s. Even people who were not particularly devout were concerned that something...

Yes, I agree. His and Greenwood's articles are consistently the highest quality writing in the magazine.

Tiptree's The Girl Who Was Plugged In is a phenomenal piece of proto-cyberpunk. It contains so many of its tropes that I'm tempted to...

That’s a great lineup. Egan excels at calmly presenting truly chilling prospects. The chair legs and the intruders are both ghastly in...