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Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan are the one region where I am a bit on the fence. They are certainly more developed than the rest of southern Faerun and there is material on them from very early on. But I personally feel that Amn and Tethyr don't really have anything interesting going for them, and a...

I think the AD&D Campaign Set and several of the FR series splatbooks are pretty great (Savage Frontier, Bloodstone Lands, Dreams of the Red Wizards). The problem is that to reboot the setting in a way that captures the qualities of the original, we would first have to reboot AD&D. Having only...

Having a completely different lineup of monsters than default D&D. Also Templars.

When you have a single artist do all the illustrations like for Planescape, or two like for 2nd edition Dark Sun (I believe), then you can give the artists freedom to interpret the setting visually as they want. Though I would say in those cases, the artist might very well be the art director...

I really don't like how Elmore paints characters. With 80s hair and no pants. But his landscapes were always fantastic and evoke a world that feels so much different from WotC D&D. Also, Keith Parkinson always makes me want to go back running a Forgotten Realms campaign in OSRIC.

Managing the resources should be easy and painless. But having to make decisions between packing extra stuff in case you might need it, or packing only the most necessary things to travel faster is a huge part of what makes wilderness campaigns and dungeon crawls in RPGs work. Or you have to...

The game gets a lot more interesting when you don't know if every fight can be won. It makes you have to consider if you really want to fight a group of potential enemies and how you will escape if the fight goes poorly. It means sometimes having to let enemies get away with what they are doing...

I haven't watched 9 or Solo, so I have to go with 8. (Which I only watched because my family had already bought tickets without asking if I want to watch it with them.)

Perfectly reasonable things that should all have been done 42 years ago.

Should we even aspire to achieve artistic expression through playing an RPG? We are playing a game, after all. Engaging gameplay should be the goal. While there are stories in games, playing games is not writing. From all I heard, there certainly are RPGs that aim to be storytelling and...

There's been a phrase I've encountered in such discussions over the years. "The solution is not on your character sheet." The main reason why I've given up on the d20-lineage of games is that the amount of special abilities very quickly got out of hand. The D&D 3rd edition Player's Handbook by...

OSE is really just the old B/X source code. Which has been hugely popular for the last 10 years because it lends itself so much to modding it (as the computer kids would say) to support all kinds of more specific settings and styles. I think any OSE setting should come with it's own custom rules...

AI is a marketing term. There is nothing intelligent about it.

A blob.