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5E is not a complex or especially crunchy game and has been dominant for a decade.

Except it is literally a major element of what I want.

What makes something post-post-apocalyptic is not how long after the apocalypse it is set, but whether the world has rebuilt to some...

Folks seem to be misunderstanding what I am saying here, which suggests I have not explained it well. By allowing the VTT to do the...

This is a false dichotomy. Nothing in "crunch" impacts what TTRPGs do that CRPGs can't. I think the "why don't you just play a CRPG"...

Draw Steel does. Very detailed project rules and you get followers as you get reputation to help with projects. Pretty easy to make that...

I have never been convinced by the argument that rules complexities impacts "roleplaying" at all.

I agree and am a big fan of the idea that we can leverage VTTs to make some games more detailed and granular without slowing down play.

I kinda hope crunch comes back. I like more complex games. I'm a 3.Xe fan. My personal projection, though, is that we'll eventually see...

My dad had a few dozen of these on the shelf, but I never read any of them.

Just finished Perry Rhodan #3, The Radiant Bell. Only took me 1.5 hours but far too long to get that time in. The first 2/3 of this...

I will check him out!

This is where I plug paleontologist Peter D. Ward as an excellent science writer, too. Out Of Thin Air, Under A Green Sky, The Medea...

That is an excellent point. Thank you. That said, TTRPG rulebooks are significantly, almost ridiculously, bigger than necessary from a...

A rules-heavy game requires a lot of work, development, and playtesting—which often translate into resources and money. They’re also...