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I have run games in established canon worlds but, despite the canon, its still the shared fun of my group. For that reason, I let players change the results. For example, I ran a long campaign using MERP / Rolemaster in which Thorin met the PCs in Bree. He's agreed to Gandalf's plan but wants...

But not the boxed set / books, which is long delayed. Hull Breach came together, ran a Kickstarter, and delivered a very polished product while the Mothership Kickstarter is well over a year late.

There's also the classic way to handle it: beta testing. Collect enough interested users and pump them for feedback on the specifics that concern you. But I think if you wait long enough, AI may be able to provide a solution. While I haven't used them in a long time, Ragor graphs have been...

Seems to be popular as DrivethruRPG is struggling just to add it to the cart.

I guess that's what happens, they were just too silent ;-) Well, sorta. It exploded among the high school and younger crowd in the 1980s but, it was more of a college age thing during the 70s. A lot of my earliest experiences gaming was around 1976-77, but there were a few instances where I was...

Why? All of the writers at that time were Boomers.

That is an even deeper rabbit hole and one reason why I have been thinking a lot more about if worlds are full of zero level beings as a norm or, if most everyone has a level. A high magic society that has potion stores and resurrections on tap really call out for answers.

I usually don't, as either the game worlds I create don't work that way or, if I am running a campaign in a commercially available world (like Forgotten Realms), its just accepted as is. For my own game worlds, I typically give it a little thought. Some modern standards in present western...

I don't have any plans on retiring, but as long as my gaming friends are willing (we've already inducted our collective adult children), there's no reason not to game.

Right, but here's the problem. You cannot really judge if you do not collect the data. You have to look at the data through the lens of how you collected the data. Chances are really good that many early generation players 'moved on' in some way, such as stopped playing, found a different...

Yeah, I found that very disappointing and, of course, those older than that. If you are a boomer or genX and still playing, you are also a lot less price sensitive, but also more likely to want a large print book.

That makes sense, but there remains preponderance of evidence from multiple sources. Consider for example, a comparison of memory vs a written diary from the time. The diary could be given more weight because it was closer to the time in which the evidence was gathered, but there's no guarantee...

Outside of this hobby of ours, historians often come into conflict on the presentation of historical events. Sometimes it is a matter of interpreting of the events themselves or, the repackaging of events for conveying a specific interpretation that is important to the historian.

It likely is a reflexive action to anyone using the word 'renegade' in a product name or trademark and not particularly noteworthy. The GTA trade dress though is.

A product is innovative based on if it is an unexpected improvement and if it results are successful. Something that is new but a market flop is unsuccessful, and its expression is not innovative, even though the intent or idea was seemingly innovative. A product can be innovative without being...

Yes, that's a shame. They didn't need the padded forehead treatment.

There are already sites like Shapeways that lets you upload STL or other 3d files, then generate money from 3d "prints". I don't see 3D printing 'upending' anything at this point. It is giving mini companies a much more cost effective way to prototype, so it has produced value for the...

I think that Gandalf is less "None Shall Pass" and more "Guess what's on the menu, and it ain't Hobbit or chicken!" There is a load of great material out there from the ICE days if you can find it. Id be inclined to use that and just convert. I dont' think I have the energy now to run a...

Not exactly new - I saw these in Powell's Books a few weeks ago. If you need reading glasses for small print, grab your glasses - they are scaled down. I am far more enthusiastic about the Dungeon Crawl Classics 4th Printing Softcover edition. The price is virtually the same, and its full...

There is a really, really vocal crowd of "No Spec" folk who love to jump in threads like this. You should be happy its only within the tiny RPG industry that this is being discussed. I see a lot worse in G+, deviantart, various pro 3d forums and the like.