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My favorite fictional example of such an event is from the Expanse. There's a scene in season 2 where the party's botanist notices that the hydroponics on the station they're on has some yellowing leaves in it. He then, correctly, deduces that the station is dead and just doesn't know it yet...

I believe that if governments are funding research, they should fund the whole process. And I believe governments should fund a whole lot more research. I think a world where all publicly funded research is publicly available would be a better world. As for what steps are needed to get from here...

JMS applied for the job when Chibnall was leaving as well, but was told that having a non-Brit running it was a non-starter for among other things practical reasons – you need to be a UK resident to work there and so on. That said, there's apparently nothing in the works at the moment because...

My basic position is that if the government pays for the research, access to it should be free to everyone. I am not involved enough with academia to have a firm idea about what is needed to make that work, but as a first step one could take the money universities and libraries pay to get...

The best available data is probably Wizards' 1999 survey*, which among other things asked those who had already self-selected as RPG players what games they were playing monthly (with multiple answers allowed): D&D: 66% Vampire: The Masquerade: 25% Star Wars: 21% Palladium: 16% Werewolf: The...

I object to the term "open access BS". If the government funds research, that research should be freely available to everyone. That might require changes to the business models of journals, and possibly adding funding to that end of the research chain, but the idea of paying again for access to...

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One day, Staffan, one day.

I can in theory see generative AI used for "drudge work". Not at the adventure design level, but something like "CR 5 psionic humanoid with a ranged attack that deals psychic damage", and then the AI fills in the numerical blanks. That bit might work better in a system like Pathfinder 2 though...

I haven't had the opportunity to play it myself, but I hear good things about the 50 Fathoms setting for Savage Worlds, and it seems to fit most of your criteria. You have numerous different races, but no elves or dwarves. It's pretty dark, with a rather tragic backstory. The book comes with a...

Chris and Owen are among the few people who have insight into both D&D and Pathfinder sales numbers, on account of having worked for both Wizards and Paizo. They are likely bound by NDAs preventing them from sharing exact numbers, but when they say 4e sold more than Pathfinder, I believe them...

Hasbro isn't exactly known for selling IPs. They'd be more likely to mothball it and bring it out after a decade or two to cash in on nostalgia vibes.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I do implore you to read the link. Here, I'll include it again for your convenience: Pathfinder Never Outsold 4E D&D (ICYMI) 4e didn't live up to Hasbro's expectations, but compared to any other RPG it was a magnificent success in objective...

There was a thread (or a couple of them) a year or two back about it, where we had some Twitter posts by people who had worked for both Paizo and Wizards who denied that it did. Most of that is in the link @zedhatool posted. The one public indicator we have are the ICV2 rankings, but those are...

In my experience, rules determine what kinds of adventures work, or at least work well. The prime example here are the Savage Worlds versions of Pathfinder's Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne. PEG's license to convert them to Savage Worlds apparently required that they remain...

They're somewhat common here in Sweden as well – not to the point of everyone having one, but you don't get surprised when you see one. But I have some vague memories of the first time they became popular, when I was a kid in the early 80s, of there being lots and lots of different flavor syrups...

Yeah, Chris and Jeremy have been the guys doing all the promotional "interviews" (usually with Todd Kenreck!) since 5e started. They probably have a fair bit of name recognition among the DMing crowd at least.