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Tbh, I'm not too familiar with the history of it all, but like Duke_ said, I know the drive for solo play has been around since the beginning. Personally, I liked TolkeinQuest books as a kid in the 1980s; those were basically CYOA storybooks with a hex map to explore and stripped-down MERP...

Solo play has practically become a formal mode of play in its own right. There are RPGs focused mainly on solo play, as well as bolt-on frameworks to facilitate soloing in games normally meant for group play. Such systems might support individual adventures only, or ongoing campaign play; and...

Usually I've given players the option to know or not. On the campaign website, I've generally had a section marked "SUPER SEKRIT SPOILERZ!" or something, where I list whatever published material I'm referencing. They can choose to look at it or not.

Something potentialy still functional? How handwavy? Maybe something that combines a clockwork elevator and cog train? A huge weight in a shaft at one end lowers and raises a train car along a cog rail on an incline; and/or huge weights in shafts at either end pull a train back and forth along a...

Only tangentially related, but kind of amusing: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/ TL;DR: Some users of a particular code editing AI (ie, for writing software) are reporting that it occasionally refuses to write...

Nah, not in general. shrug I've got no interest in psionics for my fantasy, and little use for it in most other genres. I suppose it's got some niche use in some specific sorts of horror or sci-fi, but isn't particularly necessary for me most of the time.

Arguments about snakes and bewbs goes back at least as far as the Garden of Eden.

Counterpoint: a distressing number of leaders nowadays seem to con their way into great wealth and power by doing just that.

The way I've usually handled languages is just to assume that, for most 'ordinary' communications, there's enough time, motivation, and mutual vocab on both sides to communicate sufficiently. E.g., if you're haggling to buy equipment, the buyer and seller are going to figure it out, whether or...

That's an amazing diagram! I've long struggled with how to do just this sort of thing when dealing with how game languages relate, and this approach is a beautiful way to summarize it. Thanks for sharing!

Ah, right. I was expecting that for large-scale publishing. For some reason, though, i thought small-volume orders were mostly printed in the US for US customers, so I figured that would remain mostly unscathed. But I figured wrongly, apparently. Ink, equipment, etc, costs, I guess. Sigh.

How strange. There's a handful of items on my dtrpg POD wishlist, so I'll go ahead and pull the trigger. Thanks for the heads up. Is this industry-wide? Any idea if other print services like Lulu, etc, will be affected?

Are you referring to the "Discover" function? I'd never noticed that before until now, heh.

I've only got a little experience with discord. How do you find dedicated servers for gaming? Is there some sort of search mechanism?

Huh. All this time I've been throwing a little lump of bat poop, as the book instructs, but with no effect! Maybe that's for electric stoves?

They were painted as tactical geniuses in the 3.5e MM, at least. For example, fluff text indicated that they "are generals and tacticians, often rivaling balors in sheer brilliance and cunning"; that they "thrive on grand strategy and army level tactics"; and so forth. eta: Similar verbiage...

Please don't get this thread shut down by posting comments obviously meant for a particular thread.

Best Snails encounter in D&D, ever:

I've used "D&D" to mean fantasy rpgs broadly, though I'm usually referring to something pretty closely D&D-adjacent when I do. With non-gamers, and speaking generally, my usual term is just "roleplaying" or "roleplaying gaming" or even just "gaming". A term I've heard in the last several years...

Are those classes from some 3pp supplement?