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Good luck to all those trying to snag a copy.

A part of me is oddly happy that these are so expensive. It signals to me that I'm not the market for them and not get too worked up about it. It's a whale product.

Roleplay as an exercise definitely has applications to help students learn about history.

This is an assumption that rules emulation is the primary goal for an rpg, which is a very contentious issue. For me, based on the initial posting, my concern is just thematic exploration, and how well the medium of interplay that rpgs are allows for such explorations.

I think a more useful answer is this: As a GM, there are themes I would not try to explore through an RPG.

No more than is there any genre or theme that we cannot discuss. There is only degrees of difficulty in doing so.

Love seeing the Wayne Reynolds work, especially the party piece.

I don't know if I would want to play a multi year campaign of any one game. Too many choices.

People are talking about Gygax over Gaiman here because this is a gaming forum. Trust that in the wider public sphere, more people have heard of Neil Gaiman by an order of magnitudes and I am sure the grist mill will start grinding away on this story soon enough. It's all ugly.

"As for Austrian Artist Turned Poitician, you're right, a lot of people won't separate the "art from the artist" as it were, I certainly won't (personal family stuff). Though, you will have people point to numbers and stats during his political run and before he "put his art on display" as it...

Licking that third rail there.

Jasus.

Some good points here. What can be frustrating is that you have people who want to in good faith examine where the line is. You also have people who don't want there to be any examination, who earnestly believe the very act of examination is in fact an endorsement of one side or another. What...

See WH40K and just about all geek satire. For some people, Judge Dredd is aspirational instead of cautionary.

So just to throw in my stance on this issue, specifically "death of the author." It's easier when they are actually dead. HPL is dead. He died a long time ago. He has no living descendants who profit off his work. Now, people who are down for his racist/sexist/classist/ect beliefs, ones which...

As a point of order, eagerly proclaiming that all people are wicked, so why dwell on the wickedness of a single person is just a defense of wickedness. Scholarship demands better.

Thanks for collecting this here. Twitter is still a poor medium for any real discussion of length. The excerpt from EUROPA is decidely definitive, but I suspect even that would be disputed by stalwart defenders as "merely a joke". But we say in jest what we mean in truth. We live in insincere...

Can a soul be recovered from a soul coin in the campaign? If so, then yeah, it's evil to truck with them just as it's evil to engage in slaving on any level. The neutral stance would be neither acting to trade soul coins nor to liberate them. As soon as you willingly and knowingly engage in an...

I'm going to be super curious to see if "early access" has any sales impact because the relationship that TTRPG gamers have with material and its release is very different than that for video games. Like, there is no competitive edge to have the game sooner. It is just the idea of getting it...

Also, "It's cool" does have the issue of what is cool is subjective. What some people feel is cool others may feel is trite. It's kinda similar to why I am warry of people wanting to play joke/comedic concepts in an otherwise non comedic game. Most people aren't consistently funny. What may feel...