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It is likely mainly because eating other carnivores is inefficient. When e.g. a cow eats grass, most of those nutrients and calories go toward maintenance, and only a relatively small amount toward actual growth. That's one of the reasons a vegetarian diet is better from an ecological...

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I'd argue that Firefly is, but Leverage isn't. Leverage is all about this particular band of characters and them pulling off heists against rich a-holes who abuse their wealth and power. There's very little worldbuilding involved. There's definitely room for a heist RPG, but I don't know that...

"What if" scenarios are always difficult, because there's a large portion of guesswork involved. But Paizo had two related advantages no other third-party creator had: a solid reputation for making good adventures (which they had gotten via Dungeon and particularly the adventure paths they had...

I'm not so sure. Remember that the core product of Paizo isn't the Pathfinder RPG (or at least, it wasn't back in the day). It was the Pathfinder adventure paths. When Paizo lost the license to make the Dragon and Dungeon magazines, they replaced them with their adventure path series, building...

My understanding of Kira is that while she (correctly) believes the overall fight against the Cardassian occupation was just, not all of the actions taken in that fight were, and there was a whole lot of collateral damage (e.g. bombing the home of a military commander and killing his whole family).

Fairly soon, yes.

I think that from a Watsonian perspective, he's a great love interest for her as a way of grounding her and maybe soothing some of her anger. But from a Doylist perspective, that's precisely what you don't want.

I think that it's not the sales themselves that are important, but what they indicate. If Pathfinder/Daggerheart does better than D&D, that vindicates the poster's opinion that D&D (of whatever edition is relevant in the comparison) sucks.

The D&D-style cleric is very specific to D&D and things based on it. Looking at the fantasy genre as a whole, you'll find plenty of examples of fighters, rogues, and various forms of magic-users, but pretty much the only places where you'll find "user of holy magic largely reminiscent of...

The Twitter thread referred to in the Alphastream article has two people providing a fair bit of information and background, though no hard numbers. They also have two others weighing in and saying "Yeah, that's about it." So that's a total of four people with the information to know who says PF...

If you're looking for an upgraded Talisman, you could try Relic. It's basically the same game with a 40K makeover, but it does add some more choice to things. For one thing, the adventure deck is replaced by three decks which mostly (but not exclusively) challenge either Strength (melee)...

My favorite fictional example of such an event is from the Expanse. There's a scene in season 2 where the party's botanist notices that the hydroponics on the station they're on has some yellowing leaves in it. He then, correctly, deduces that the station is dead and just doesn't know it yet...

I believe that if governments are funding research, they should fund the whole process. And I believe governments should fund a whole lot more research. I think a world where all publicly funded research is publicly available would be a better world. As for what steps are needed to get from here...

JMS applied for the job when Chibnall was leaving as well, but was told that having a non-Brit running it was a non-starter for among other things practical reasons – you need to be a UK resident to work there and so on. That said, there's apparently nothing in the works at the moment because...

My basic position is that if the government pays for the research, access to it should be free to everyone. I am not involved enough with academia to have a firm idea about what is needed to make that work, but as a first step one could take the money universities and libraries pay to get...

The best available data is probably Wizards' 1999 survey*, which among other things asked those who had already self-selected as RPG players what games they were playing monthly (with multiple answers allowed): D&D: 66% Vampire: The Masquerade: 25% Star Wars: 21% Palladium: 16% Werewolf: The...

I object to the term "open access BS". If the government funds research, that research should be freely available to everyone. That might require changes to the business models of journals, and possibly adding funding to that end of the research chain, but the idea of paying again for access to...

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One day, Staffan, one day.