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If you distill the math behind the adventuring days XP, the treasure hoards and the DMG advice you can find these numbers: Levels 1 and...

I loved the book and I am very curious how they will do it. Ryan Gosling is a great cast for the role IMO.

I predict Ryan Gosling will be nominated for an Academy Award again and lose and then he and Amy Adams will have a drink together and...

I fully agree, and I normally go this way. I always have dozen of books of different topics laying around. But as I said, it's been a...

I personally prefer inventory slots over calculating weights. Mausritter is pretty elegant in how it handles the inventory, though I...

Most of the decision could be reduced to "Do I use this now or potentially later", "Do I pick this up" or "Do we go further?". Do I use...

That is the main reason I have like 10 unfinished books right now - not counting the ones I completely DNF. But these books I feel I...

Yeah. I do the same. It seems to come in waves. Fiction for a time then non-fiction. Forcing things almost never works out well for me...

I’m a very big believer in feeding your brain what it wants to read, within very broad limits. I’ve got times when one or more of my...

I've found it difficult to get through Neuromancer. Definitely not my writing style, but for some reason I'm having a hard time getting...

That first section of Eye of the World is really cozy, hitting a lot of those Hero's Journey tropes in a very in-fashion in the 1980s...

There's an excellent series of essays about the life of medieval peasants by Bret Devereaux over on his blog, which I'm a big fan of.

Plenty of stuff (such as Invasion on Apple+) caters to the conventional. The whole point of Pluribus is to tell a different type of...

We just watched the first episode and really liked it, but at the end my son commented that it felt like a Twilight Zone episode. Which...

A non-sentient virus propagating through the galaxy using technologically-advanced species as a medium is a cool concept for an episode...