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Neither playing guitar nor GMing is a recreational impossibility, I concur.

I know a couple of the people I GM for have run into anxiety-related walls connected to their GMing, that's a real thing, and it's at...

Most of the games I’ve played over the last few years have some element of collaborative PC creation. It works so well that I don’t...

Certainly did for me. NSFW content is something I very much enjoy in fantasy like D&D, but generally don’t want in the tabletop game...

My wife was just noting that geological studies in the PNW have confirmed various extant tribal stories about the last major earthquake...

True. But that doesn’t make oral tradition unreliable. Again, in the West the cultural bias towards writing is strong. Like most biases...

I mean, Forge Steel already exists and is incredible. Somebody with patreon access please tell me if there's any benefit at all here?

Yeah, I’ll note that I don’t really run any direct “D&D” product right now, so for my games action doesn’t mean combat but a grabby...

I have often opened with a combat in the past but now I have moved away from that. It sets the tone that combat is the main schtick of...

I use campaign players guides (even if I have to write them myself). Even my sand boxes have meta-goals to avoid the aimless wandering...

This resonates with me, even though the game of the RPG is very important to me. Because the game itself is a social thing, in the sense...

That is plainly not true in the real world. Even with a question as "who reigned when" that seems to be "objective and factual" the...

I mean obviously, I don't just load as the DM some lore drops. The lore should always come from a gameable context, but especially if it...

Or just actual history, right? Im reading a fantastic book on medieval history and it makes a point of noting how often histories by...

Oh god do I feel the urge to cross the red line into current politics to refute that assertion...