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this really sounds like you dont understand gamedesign on a non surface level. This same argument could be made about magic the...

I haven't read all the posts here and its not as though my opinion on it matters, but I'll offer it. I'd love to see a more "Basic"...

I'd definitely have to classify Gilgamesh as "spicy", there's some NSFW content in there for sure!

I think the real questions we need to ask are whether or not the Epic of Gilgamesh and/or The Fairie Queene are "cozy" fantasy or not...

You create an robot duplicate indistinguishable from an actual teenager and send it out into the wild to invite real teenagers to play...

Setting romanticy aside for a moment, one of the things to consider when discussing cosy fantasy in D&D is a role playing game is not a...

Despite having important romances in their plots, Baldree's books, Legends & Lattes and its two follow-ups, are generally considered...

Not to spoil too much, but the trajectory of this book seems to be quite a bit different. The second novel in the series (the first...

Here's the Monday Blues Map #200 map. This week's map is a stand-alone dungeon map. Click to enlarge. Map Details: Grid Size: 42x62...

It’s not even true in regular cosy fantasy. The reader may have meta-knowledge that the protagonists will be fine, but for the...

To add to the two above, this is the opening line to Brigands and Bread knives, that sequel to Legends and Lattes which was a founding...

This just isn’t true in the context we’re talking about here, of a romantasy novel. In this context, cozy is just an antonym for spicy...

Big fan of this take. This also helps give an explanation to the “Mos Eisely Cantina effect.” No one wants to be an adventurer; it’s...

Sure! But those are problems at an interpersonal scale. I was referring more to the problems of global scale.

Not that I disagree with that necessarily, but I'd also just add that people can just generally be real jerks overall, especially to...