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I still havent heard it! I dont listen to radio and most of my presents were ordered online. I was on one Christmas market, but it was a...

I don't know of any system that does wargame-esque set-piece encounters really well (in the sense that they are tactically complex, fun...

I first read Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling 40 years ago - we somehow had a great edition with the original drawings and I loved...

I think that the series that’s been made into a bad film which would really benefit from being made into anime is Philip Reeve’s Mortal...

I think a lot of those authors are pretty influential on sort of Japanese writers who basically created the shonen genre too, though...

It's also a funny comparison, considering thst I tend to doubt Robert Jordan knew what Shojen even is. His influences are kind of...

I've been saying this for years too but yeah @Retros_x explains with words what I only had as a vague instinct. I think there are...

I love the books, but those are all fair takeaways. The meandering nature of the plot is a very real issue...but when the threads...

Modern western society deals with improbable events in half measures - we use insurance, for example, to spread risk for improbable...

Thats true but its not just the outcome, the calculation itself happens with values that can't be measured. With cars we at least could...

I started Wheel of Time #2 and I am already 60% done with it, its a bit shorter than the first one. Unfortunately its a bit of a...

Finally finished The Fifth Season, which may be the only five star unsatisfying book I've ever read. The world-building is incredible...

I'm different than many here in that I don't (usually) simply decide what is in the world (easy or hard encounter-wise) and let the...

Interestingly enough I enjoy videogames much more that don't do scaled leveling too. I was really annoyed by the scaling in Bethesda...

I'm definitely in the camp where combat encounters tend to be an organic thing whose particulars are decided by the narrative. I don't...