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Some of the best scenes in S.M. Stirling’s To Turn The Tide, with time travelers from 21st century Vienna to the Danubian frontier...

Then you shouldn't have said "just about every fantasy game". There are plenty of non-class-based fantasy games, some of them...

There are certainly characters who have skills and sometimes powers (Obfuscate for example) that lean into that.

Yup. That's the point. Outside of Superworld powers and a few things like mutations in some games, BRP hasn't tended to have a...

I'd say it tends to be the case in D&D settings that there's more tolerance for situational violence than their is in our world--and...

I think this applies to an awful lot of internet theories about movies or books, they rarely survive contact with whatever they're...

There's a huge overlap between my forever DM role and my professional writing. I think that's true for a lot of people who are a good...

A good part of my wife's job is logistics. She then comes home and plays computer games, many of which are focused on--logistics.

I dunno, man. Some people find ways to turn their hobbies into jobs, and some of them even avoid losing the joy while doing that...

Yeah, that's why I never entirely answered.

I was just having a similar conversation about this kind of thing with my Mom 2 days ago. We’ve both created or designed a lot of...

Depends on what translates into "creating a conflict over it." If someone talks about things in fashion that indicates they're talking...

You've probably expressed why its a movie I respect but don't consider a favorite better than I can. I wonder if it'd even be a classic...

The digression is ridiculous, though, because it's explicitly shown in the movie that the Axiom is not "Edenic" in any way. The system...

Meaningful work absolutely adds to psychological fulfillment for many, if not most, people. Even less-meaningful work does for a lot of...