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The only way to lose an rpg is by saying “huzzah.”

Jumping in late on the OSR vibe... Personally, I don’t think it’s useful to try and measure Daggerheart against the “OSR gold standard”...

I'm intrigued by this. What positive motivations could you even conceive for someone actively trying to "win" D&D, at the cost of the...

Really? I would say 5E reaches far above that. Assuming you put your highest stat as your primary, and increase that from time to...

Absolutely, but I've seen this enough to have what seems at least adequate evidence it isn't just me, either. I mean, just look at a...

What are you talking about? I'm not psychoanalyzing anyone. I'm talking about people who have actively made that decision. They exist -...

This seems pretty bad, RPG industry-wise. Diamond dumping a bunch of inventory on the market at low prices is probably not great...

Bleeding Cool (who has been covering all the Diamond drama since the beginning) reported a while back that Diamond suddenly changed a...

Diamond has stuff in warehouses, holding it for the publishers, and Diamond is probably paying for that storage - and when they are...

I’ve been experimenting with using LLMs to run TTRPGs for a while now, and one of the most valuable lessons I had to learn—slowly, and...

This is a very good post and I suggest people study it and understand it, honestly.

AI might, LLMs won't. LLMs require significant work to even manage (c.f. this entire discussion), and ultimately are just predictive...

Just wanted to share my experiences at having an LLM (in this case, Gemini) act as a gamemaster. I have completed five sessions, each...

The only real difference is mindset. The actual characters at the table may well be identical, mechanically - they'll just be played...