Recent content by Steve Bonario

One thing I think is missing from the conversation (unless it is just inherently presumed not to matter) is the notion of an action economy. That is, layered over all these systems is frequency of attack or defense. Then add action duration (AD&D had one-minute rounds, in which a number of...

IMHO, the best were the trio done for the core books. I have all three and protect them with plastic removable cover sleeves. It's stupid that the cover somehow enhances my enjoyment of the content, but they do. There's no difference in the content, yet I prefer using the alt covers when i'm...

Unlike video games and software, which are created by other people and whose salable content is limited to what is coded by the "owners" of the IP, a TTRPG requires literally nothing more than a pencil, paper, possibly dice, and your own imagination. This is one reason companies have long...

This. A thousand times this. All that matters to C-level people is making the numbers look good so that they get their bonuses. It is literally the same as Special Order 937 from the movie Alien: "all other considerations secondary; crew expendable". Publicly traded U.S. businesses are run and...