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It was a pretty good show. I liked how they didn't try to ripply over again and tried something a little different.

YAY

Their worked genre setting basically do that - Action, Dungeon Fantasy, After the End, Monster Hunters all do this. Steampunk also, to a...

A big complication is the question of how diegetic the whole system of levels is. Because if we assume that it's not a privilege of only...

I'd suggest prisons became a thing when the combination of corporeal punishment and exile became considered either undesirable or...

Because you still need to do other things with that hand, like it or not.

Clan Nosferatu. They are described as masters of spycraft. Obfuscate, as a discipline, focuses on stealth I referenced WoD earlier...

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.