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Mike Lafferty's experience should be required reading for all roleplaying groups. When I first started playing PBEM games (which have evolved mostly into PbP games) back in the early 1990s, I got the impression that every campaign would eventually devolve into bickering between the PCs. It...

So, yeah... I feel great guilt and conflictedness over this as well. I'm a football fan, but I wonder if I'm now in the ethical position of a fan of gladiator games. It will be interesting to see if there is pressure on colleges to dial back (or even eliminate) football programs in light of...

I will say that I still fairly frequently see the opposite. Fortunately, it's not as bad as it once was. But, the reactionary response from roleplayers to demean people who are interested in "sportsball" (stereotyping them as unfeeling jocks, as stupid, as not creative, etc.) is a thing, and...

Just bought the book, and skimming it reminds me how long it's been since I saw either TNG or DS9. (Or anything, really.... I've seen the Abrams reboot movies because they're recent, but but for one or two TOS episodes, it's been since Nemesis that I've really watched any Star Trek...

Given that this is something like 5 iterations of the license behind, I'm assuming it's not possible to buy PDFs of FASA Trek anywhere?

I remember after seeing "Casino Royale", the first Bond movie featuring Daniel Craig, that I liked that the whole main plot was over some large sum of money. It wasn't about saving the world. Now, granted, yes, the villain was going to do things like crash some planes to make that money, and...

I begin to understand why there was so much discussion in the 1e Player's Handbook about how the party should figure out how to divide up magic items.... Lots of institutional rules are in place to stop one person in the past who was too good at working the system and got too much individual...

The question I really want answered is only tangentially related: "Is WotC going to release PDF versions of the core books any time soon?" (If the answer is "no", then a follow-up question, "What year do you think it is?") I'm not aware of any other RPG product for which you can't get both PDF...

...and this is why I'm not taking D&D/5e seriously, nor am likely to in the near future. I'm not at all interested in any kind of DRM-encumbered PDF or any kind of custom ap. That sort of thing is not at all future proof. I remember when DriveThruRPG first opened, they announced they'd be...

Whatever happened to that Santiago AP?

(Aside: it's rather ridiculous that this form replaces a very common term for "the excrement of a bull" with a series of smilies. Too much overeager puritanism in this country.) While this is entirely possible, I have to admit that I seriously doubt this. The CEOs and companies of the world...

Note that while once upon a time Fate was an OGL adaption of Fudge, nowadays it's not. Similar concepts, and they share some metaphorical DNA, but Fate is no longer a Fudge derivative. One of my favorites of the OGL-licensed 3e knockoffs was Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved. Ran a campaign of that...

You're wrong about these. People seem to remember the glut of mediocre d20 products and the crash that followed. But that's not all that happened. There were some real gems in there, and an entire industry that wouldn't have existed without the whole OGL/d20 thing. It's analogous to the...

Re: the name "Big Bang", here is an article I wrote nearly a decade ago back when I was an active blogger about why it's a bad name for the theory. Here, I'm talking about what freyar calls the "Hot Big Bang". I come from an observer's bias, so that's what I tend to think of as "The" Big Bang...

Yeah, but when are they going to do PDFs for 5e??? That's one big reason why I'm not seriously checking out the new system.

Hmm... is there a way to manually give it a thumbnail image to use? Is this standard software? I wonder if there's a setting somewhere.

The fact that nearly every image on the front page of enworld.org is stretched either horizontally or vertically makes the front page look terrible. Please, please either crop images to something that fits your predefined image thumbnail size, update the software so that it does proportional...

Here's hoping that Paizo never goes public. Going public is a good way to ruin a company. Another is to be bought by a huge company. Sure, some people make a lot of money when those things happen, but more often than not it seems to suck the soul out of a company. Can't help but wonder if...

I am facepalming that WOTC isn't putting out legal PDFs of the 5e system. Honestly, do they think it's still the 1990s? This is one thing holding me back from really checking out 5e. I'm past lugging around large numbers of large books for refrence. (I still iike the print books for reading...

This layout is way better than the one that you had up before. The previous one was cluttered and busy. I would come to the site, and just see stuff everywhere and not be sure what was new, what was worth paying attention to. One coud get used to it, but it was still cluttered, busy, and...