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I have just tried it again with ChatGPT. Do you remember the pictures of the heroes of Dragonlance around the fire? I asked it to create...

Yeah, but there you have no choice: its your whole product. The people doing the stretch goals, on the other hand, do.

The problem is that even if you do that, there's no assurance that the pricing and practicality at the point you put them up as a...

Investigative horror games in particular have risk but they don't tend to assume a particularly high level of PC mortality.

There are some (like "10 Candles") that start with that premise, I feel that this is broadly incorrect. Horror can end in a TPK, but it...

Yeah, as one of the old farts of the board, I can say in the '70's that really top-down GMing was treated like it was the expected way...

Power-tripping DMs/GMs/Storytellers etc. are a real thing, and sometimes that power-tripping manifests as being a "killer DM"...

For me it really depends on the system. Some of them it matters little, others can be unplayable with rolled stats. I'll roll in DCC and...

I notice most of the experienced producers don't; even if they haven't had problems themselves, I think they've noticed the problem with...

I would agree that Point Buy is not as balanced as Standard Array, but I will say that I prefer Point Buy for the customization it...

I suspect we are deceiving ourselves if we think anything we love is too obscure for those working in the film industry. Fiction is...

Which is why I said "Some of those."

Poul Anderson’s Polsotechnic League stories aren’t particularly nuanced space adventures.

Which was kind of the point I was alluding to; it produces a lot more failure states than a digital one, and thus more likely to leave...

GURPS used 1 yard / 1 meter hexes right from the start, as I think its precursors The Fantasy Trip, Melee and Wizard did. It always felt...