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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...

If he's not trolling, that's horrifying.

Wasting my time on pedagogy? My job is to both teach and research. To ignore either facet is to do my job poorly. In an industry context...

Registry Desk "So far, so good. Pick a skill. What do ye do well?" Choose a skill and assign one skill point to it. Each skill...

That's where the humans and the policy comes into play. You are 100% held accountable for any code that you introduce in my company - AI...

I think with present technology, all CRPGs are railroads. My favorite CRPG is Mass Effect 1. And it's very much on rails. There is a...

I tend to agree. I write about railroading not as an attempt to set some standard that you can't break, because I break it myself. I...

A member of the Children of Atom for Fallout. Still working on some details.

Well, you are on a computer messageboard, not reading a mimiographed fanzine you've gotten in the mail... The only constant is change...

Yeah. Admittedly, my approach is easier when my deities are not, well, "people". Non-corporeal, powers and spirits don't need a...

AI: used as a tool to assist human creative processes? OK. Sure, acts like a personal editor, coding assistant, google image search for...

So...almost everyone you know uses AI to some extent in their campaigns too? My DM, who created his own version of that (described in...