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Found the alternate covers that join together she was talking about. Cool enough.

I strongly prefer this make-it-your-own approach to settings. Lore-hoarders are going to lore-hoard. They will build their dedicated...

As an aside, I think you might say that urban fantasy a la Peter Grant etc romanticizes the idea of a time when (western?) humanity...

I’d say it’s so grimdark, HBO show, “everyone sucks, always”, that it cannot count. It doesn’t look fondly or kindly on anything, to a...

I disagree. Mainstream fantasy is pretty obsessed with tropes and plots inspired by medieval romance. Heroes on quests, mythical...

And also has some fascinating ideas about magic and demons that I’m totally tearing off for my Tuesday urban fantasy game.

There are plenty of fantasy series that aren't backwards looking. They just aren't the ones that are focused on pseudo-medieval and...

We had a player duck out due to a medical issue last night, but one guy who has a ~50m drive was already on his way. Thankfully this...

I gave out my first Transformation card last session. After the party Warrior slew a group of Doppelgangers that were pretending to be...

Selfish genes outcompete altruistic genes. Altruistic communities outcompete selfish communities.

The former is always been my problem with zombie apocalypse stories. Assuming there is no way to end said apocalypse or enough people...

I vastly prefer settings of hope over despair. A setting of despair makes me despair. Like literally. It actually makes me think...

Empathy is the ability to perceive and understand the feelings of others. Empathic-altruism is the act of helping others because you...

Folks in the midst of natural disasters -- real ones, not ones in movies -- tend to be incredibly empathetic and helpful, even toward...

Actually, that tends not to be true? Empathy is about understanding somebody else's internal state and tends to be correlated with...