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Any longer? Not trying to be a big downer, but they never were. There's no period in RPG history where that was a major, popular thing in RPGs. The earliest RPGs are wargame-adjacent "kill your way through a deathtrap of a dungeon" deals. There was no "medieval sim" let alone "dark ages sim"...

AR and VR both just keep swinging and missing, over and over and over, have done for my whole lifetime and I'm 47 man, because it's a solution looking for a problem, and not willing to wait the tech is so good it might become viable, because that might mean a competitor got there first. The last...

😭 No why you coming for them! I thought they were horrible when I was a kid but I quite like them now, so long as they're not sloppy (they should be more at the mashed potato end of things).

Work on Sigil started before the Beyond acquisition, and head of WotC's digital was actually opposed to the Beyond acquisition (this came out, of all times, during the OGL 2.0 deal), so yeah I don't think there's any question internal politics was in play here. Interesting re: the small updates...

Factorio is a wild and crazy impressive game, but... I don't think anyone is going to hire them with their current guy in charge, who has a history of attacking age-of-consent laws as "woke" and immoral (he thinks there should be no laws there, so probably going to get arrested on "serious...

I think I have to agree with @Dausuul here, though also with you re: Exodus. Beyond wasn't a WotC product at all, the only credit they can take is that they gave that licence to a company which made good use of it, and had the sense of eventually (after they'd been sold twice already!) buy...

I mean, it kind of does actually, just in a different way. In BG1/2 the abrasiveness doesn't usually come out in talking to the PC, it comes out in the barks and inter-NPC chatter. They basically behave like a bunch of children stuck in the back seat of a hot car on a long journey, insulting...

The only one I've actually "read" of this year's crop is Caves of Qud, which my god is that a well-deserved win. Cave of Qud is probably most surprisingly brilliant game I've come across, especially wild as I bought it years ago, though it was kind of pretentious and unfun after like fifteen...

I heard that it pretty much "got pandemic'd" in that Jemisin by her own admission totally lost enthusiasm (not because she didn't believe in the story, but pandemic blues, totally understandable), but felt she had to finish it, and combined the manuscripts from the two next books in the "We...

I do think "Mangetout" - "eat everything" would have been another very on-the-nose name! To be fair to the Maginot line btw, whilst the cultural valence in the English-speaking West is as I describe, the French designers did actually understand the Germans could go around it, they just thought...

Man the stick I'd get for Cargill-84 lol! At least you dropped the S to disguise it slightly! I once made up the name "Agadir" for a major dragonborn antagonist (not quite badguy) in my D&D campaign only to find out a week or two later that it was the name of a city in Morocco and the way I...

Oooooh I like this

It's not. It's the first thing you see in the show (IIRC) It's foreshadowing what's going to happen more broadly. It's irrelevant that it's a ship, it's irrelevant that it's collecting specimens. It's a theme, if we're going with the "EXTREMELY ON THE NOSE" approach the show seems to be taking...

This was fascinating because the spells I got, the vast majority of them were just very very much too high level. Like, level 3 spells with level 1 or even cantrip-tier effects. A level 7 spell that would have been bad at level 5. A level 5 spell that was kind of objectively worse than upcasting...

One way is to just give everyone a token they hand in after their go, and then next "go" they get it back so you know a "turn" has passed for them. Personally I probably wouldn't run D&D with full-on DH initiative because of stuff like that, but if I ever run it again I'll definitely do...

There's some weirdly very "1980s Judge Dredd story" about that concept!

Honestly it's shockingly easy to picture the Empire of Man's customs enforcement, a very bored looking guy in a dirty uniform standing next to a parcel scanner the size of a semi-truck, with gothic spires like it was a cathedral, multiple tech-priests attending it, waiting for one of the...

I think the idea is that the name is foreshadowing - i.e. all the defences they have against these aliens will fail, not that the ship itself is literally the Maginot line. The "on the nose" name would be to call it The Pandora (or any of a million names for hell). However, given how incredibly...

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