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Is it Real D&D or Not D&D To Me?

IMHO, Free League is making the best RPGs on the market - in terms of total package: art, atmosphere, world-building, mechanics.

I find it a bit unnerving how a kind of quasi-religious worldview has taken over certain segments of the population, with baked in assumptions about what is or is not good, true, and right. This can be exemplified by the word "problematic," which is often used in a manner as if there is a clear...

Yet that is exactly how the world has always been and still is. Technology is not evenly distributed and societies vary widely in terms of access and usage, whether we're talking now or a thousand years ago. Similarly, when the agricultural revolution occurred, it didn't happen everywhere. It...

Brian Attebery described genres, particularly fantasy, as "fuzzy sets" - not defined as much by a boundary as to what is or is not within the genre, but by relationship to a center point, which may be represented by a kind of "ur-text" (or set of core texts; e.g. LotR for epic fantasy, Conan for...

Forgive me, but I really don't think I'm up for watching Gary's wild Hollywood orgy days, starring Paul Giamatti.

Fixed ;)

The map is nice, but I'm reminded of the Living Gazetteer map - it lacks the "soulful fun" and 70s campiness of the Darlene map.

It's a couple years old, I believe. Very cool high concept game, with tones of Dark City.

Since my post above, I've added the One Ring, Dragonbane, Forbidden Lands Bloodmarch, and Nibiru. Yes, I love Free League stuff. Nibiru is a very interesting SF game that I found in a used bookstore.

About five minutes ago I bought my first RPGs in a year or two...catching upon some Free League stuff: Into the Odd, World of Symbaroum (setting book), and Vaesen. I was considering adding a couple Forbidden Lands books--Bloodmarch and Raven's Purge--but the shop I bought from doesn't carry...

EN World never fails! Thanks all, a lot to sort through. It is probably a long-shot, but do any of them take a more Marxist bent?

Thanks for the suggestions. It doesn't have to be under two hours - we can play over multiple sessions. It would just be more convenient.

I don't know a huge amount about board games, and wanted to crowd-source some ideas from EN World. Basically I'm looking for board games that deal with economics and geopolitics as a whole, that I can play with my teenage students. I know Monopoly, of course, and Catan has a strong economic...

Similar to what someone said above, I find myself losing interest in a lot of sf/fantasy shows...lots of good stuff out there, but it almost feels oversaturated. Even the shows I liked to varying degrees, I find myself losing interest in and/or forgetting. Oh, and Rings of Power is an atrocity...

I grew up on the D&D of the 80s, so for me "traditional" was my imprinted default style of play, with the DM creating the setting and story environment within which the PCs interacted. PCs had agency, but the DM had ultimate authority as "author of the world." I personally never ran into...

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