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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...

Does it harm the fidelity of the setting? Is it a concept that inherently creates more work for the rest of the table? Are they the only player that wants to do this? If the first two are no and the third one is yes, then you can probably proceed. You may find that some negotiation may smooth...

Honestly for me the best version of saves was 3rd. Reflex/Fortitude/Willpower. The old school saves were rather arbitrary in classifications in my experience. But then again, I don't much care for old school design due to the disparate systems. The advent of 3rd ed / d20 with a central system...

Totally can grok how it's just what some are looking for. But for me, it's just more bookkeeping on my end as GM. The juice aint worth the squeezing, but ymmv.

If I was only picking one, it would be Spelljammer. Give us some actual rules for ships.

Oh yeah. The whole concept of different rates of advancement dependent on class was such a mess. Not only the actual amounts to level varying, but that some classes had an easier time earning bonus XP than others.

Nuclear power also has many possibilities, but I would be a fool to not be keenly aware of it's dangers first and foremost. I don't think of it from only one point of view. Assuming that just because my concerns outweigh the positives I can acknowledge means I am blind to them is reductive and...

That is my position. Harsh restrictions yes, but I am not so naive to think the technology is leaving.

"AI doesn't kill culture. People kill culture."