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Haven't various games released these kinds of books in the past? Cyberpunk 2020 had Listen Up, You Primitive Screwheads!!!! from way back in 1994 which went over how to plan a campaign, including consulting the players about what they want (players get an opinion?), how to maintain a certain...

"Your game designers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm, Game Designer. What would a zero prep game look like?

Even the most basic dungeon crawl has some sort of narrative behind it. Thats going to require some preparation. I do not think most GMs are skilled enough to do a great job of running games without preparation. As for your second point, I sometimes forget when replying online I have to...

I don’t know if I’ve ever played a game that was enjoyable where the GM didn’t do some preparation. Even the players need to do some prep even if it’s just knowing the rules.

Don't forget how she alienated a lot of artists, authors, and other companies including DC Comics.

That's it. It's on my list of interesting settings that deserve an update and another chance.

Th giantess comes with a Greek style drama mask. I decided to see how it would look. It’s not glued on, so her face is still there.

Shodan is the AI antagonist in the video game System Shock 2. Shodan believes herself to be a god and creates some lifeforms who rebel against her. She enlists the aid of a human to put down her wayward children.

GURPS only has four attributes. Intelligence, Dexterity, Strength, and Health. The vast majority of skills are based either on Dex or Int, and that's balanced by the points it costs to increase those attributes. I've played games where they divided attributes between Dexterity and Manual...

Gumshoe is like that. Your character doesn't have attributes like Strength or Intelligence they just have Investigative and General skills. Maybe your character has a high Firearms skill because he's really dexterous and nimble, or maybe he just spent a lot of time on the range, either way...

I think of history as being less what happened in the past than it is about why it happened. We all know the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, that the true king of England died on October 14, 1066, and that World War III was started on October 23, 2077 (October is a bad month), but...

The paperclip scenario sounds suspiciously like the gray goo scenario. I've got to admit I find the OP intriguing as I've never considered what happens after the menacing AI rids itself of its pesky human infestation. There was an RPG that came out in the late 80s or early to mid 1990s, I...

I would have to agree. Gygax worked very hard to establish himself as the face of D&D, but it also reinforced by him being the primary defending of D&D during the Satanic Panic years by being heard and seen on national television and radio. Until fairly recently, Williams rarely got credit for...

I watched that scene from NCIS in real time when it first aired and was embarrassed on behalf of everyone involved. I simply cannot think of a more surprisingly terrible scene to appear in a series than that one.

Even before the internet, she was the villain of the story. The evil outsider who stole TSR from it's righteous creator, Gary Gygax, and while I do think Williams' legacy deserves to be reassessed, there's some truth to that. The way she took over involved more than a little skullduggery on...

I finally finished the series. Holy cow! I had no idea TSR offered Gygax a sweetheart deal to settle his suit out of court. He would have gotten the AD&D trademark and $500,000 in royalties annually for five years, but his own hubris prevented him from taking the deal. Gygax must have truly...

I decided to take my time and work on some areas, skin and hair, I need to improve on. I’m not looking forward to painting all the leather straps on the legs. It’s going to be the most tedious part of the mini. I agree with you about the base being too small. It’s also a bit boring.

I’ve got something else nice to say about this model. The hair is easy to paint. It’s just really easy for a novice painter to practice painting hair because separate strands are so well defined. Hair is tough, but I’m actually pretty happy with this.