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Today I learned that pistol shrimp exist. I don't think I want anyone to ever tell me an alien animal I come up with is outlandish...
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I think there's a difference between "Nothing exists" and "nothing exists that's going to be interesting to adventurers". The...
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And there we are. All the game engines of them seemed vastly more similar than different to me.
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Every edition of Exalted Every edition of Legend of the Five Rings Every edition of Shadowrun Every edition of Earthdawn Every edition...
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How incompatible do they need to be? Some people would claim that about Shadowrun 4e. Traveler the New Era certainly was. Each...
Feb 13, 2026
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Well I explained my position. If you handed me ten games from the period of D&D 4.0 and said "One of these is the new edition of D&D"...
Feb 13, 2026
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Answer is "It depends." You'd need to rework some elements of some of them, but they have the same criteria I'm using: structural, look...
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Feb 12, 2026
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I suspect that the the audible public of the RPG space. Its never a good idea to confuse that with the group involved as a whole.
Feb 12, 2026
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Yup. Often the best third option they had was non-exclusive art use (i.e. not stock but permitting the artist to resell it to others...
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I think they are iterations of the same game. Some I like better than others, but yes, 4E is D&D in my opinion even if I don't much care...
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You didn't ask me, but I do. Same as I believe about all the editions of RuneQuest, even though there were some serious variations in...
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That's the problem though; how different a game needs to be to be called something different is in the eye of the beholder. I'd say...
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I'm not sure why that would be surprising; if someone isn't themselves hostile to AI art usage, and doesn't think they're potential...
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