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Its funny, I'm pretty fond of country gravy on chicken-fried steak, but on biscuits it doesn't do much for me.

Brutal. I've been looking at dogs again, I miss my guy and its been over a year.

Otherwise good GMs have blindspots and bad elements all the time. In particular, this is one a lot of old-school style GMs fall into...

People who've only played one game, like D&D think they have invented something new when they are likely just going over well-trodden...

If someone has decided to ignore emails on game topics, then they can't care too much about rules decisions in the first place.

I have no idea how you are as a GM. That's a gestalt of a number of factors, most of which can't be seen from a distance. And I...

You are either deliberately disregarding my distinction between individuals and groups, or blind to the distinction. In the first case...

As you should. If somebody microwaves fish in the office i'm gonna give them the stink eye, if they come waft it in my direction they...

There is a big difference between being able to smell that somebody somewhere is smoking, and somebody is blowing smoke directly in my face.

The question, as always, is what comes next. And I suspect what comes next is not better days.

Sometimes there are moments that make me recall the words of journalist Spencer Ackerman, whose Rolling Stone obituary of former...

Which means it behooves the GM to try and even that out; its not an excuse for deciding to do it all himself. We exist in the days of...

It's not even that. Derivative works are a different can of fish, and licensed as such. Certain things cannot be copyrighted. The courts...

I would prefer a scale that matters to more people than just you.

I maintain half of the problem with game systems is lack of, or insufficient blindtesting. And sometimes its selective; people who run...