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I never really got into Trudvang, but my understanding is that Paul Bonner is to Trudvang as Brom is to Dark Sun, diTerlizzi is to Planescape, and Reynolds is to Eberron.

Earthdawn has threads used for spellcasting, but that's the opposite effect. In Eon, it's an explanation for why you can't just take more time to generate magic power for your spells, while in Earthdawn it is specifically a casting time mechanic.

The Maquis, along with the Klingons, served to put enough pressure on the Cardassians to make them make some choices in later seasons. But it would have been interesting to see them explore this some more. Hmm... goes to look things up on Memory Alpha Oh, that's interesting. Apparently the...

We used to have an RPG in Sweden that had an in-lore explanation for something like this. Basically, spells used a metaphysic thing called "filaments", which in D&D terms would be like threads in the weave, and more powerful spells of course used more filaments. But you couldn't just push more...

Writing detailed adventures for public consumption for any game is hard. It's super difficult to try to predict what sort of dumb stuff the PCs are going to try in any one situation. It's slightly easier for a game like D&D which has certain built-in concepts about what PCs are supposed to be...

"Hey guys, the guards are dead and there's a 20-foot dome of force in the storage room that wasn't there this morning. I tried throwing a rock at it but it just bounced off." "Eh, don't worry. It's probably perfectly natural and nothing to worry about."

That's what 13th Age does. I do think there's some use of having low-level slots – they become used for utility spells rather than combat spells. The highest-level character I can recall playing is a 13th level sorcerer in a PF2 game that is currently unfortunately on hiatus for the foreseeable...

One of the two peoples being focused on in the Jakandor setting are called the Charonti. They are the descendants of an ancient world-spanning magocratic empire that fell to a plague millennia ago. Maybe it has something to do with them?

More LN/LG than LE, I think (with the caveat that they consider the use of mindless undead a neutral thing – 2e was more into the idea of zombies being robots made of flesh than them being unholy abominations animated by pure evil and hungering for the flesh of the living unless actively held...

This is gonna take some history. As many people know, Dragonbane is the English translation of the most recent edition of the Swedish RPG Drakar och Demoner, which originated as a translation of Basic Roleplaying + Magic World* back in 1982. The game was rewritten in 1984 into the version most...

I think in most cases such watch lists are intended for people who are already fans and thus they already know the characters, so in that case it makes perfect sense to skip the lower-quality character episodes.

What some people call "filler", I call "character episodes" or "worldbuilding". While they may not have the impact of something like Way of the Warrior or The Maquis, episodes like The House of Quark or Rejoined let us get to know the characters, so we care about them when the big things go...

Minor quibble: there's no exclamation mark in "Draw Steel".

I think that from an actual physics perspective, the problem with hands-free brooms is that they don't have any stability. With a horse, a saddle and stirrups are immensely helpful because the horse itself usually isn't going to just roll over and the center of gravity of rider + horse is going...

From Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum, a discussion between Esmeralda Weatherwax and Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats: “And that’s what your holy men discuss, is it?” “Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example.”...

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