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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...

Yes, that's exactly my problem with the more common viewpoints around classes. It's the idea that thousands of NPCs are all going to...

Then I'm at loss as to why you don't see any roleplaying in solo games. You're responding to inputs, internal and external. You're...

Classes and levels are both player-facing constructs for creating player characters that are "balanced" against each other. We know...

The best solo game experience I've seen recently was SoloDark, based on the Shadowdark rules.

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I think it's possible to avoid that in an open world, but you need to have Skyrim-style respawn, not MMORPG-style respawn, i.e. you...

Yes, but that's because the metagame constructs of class and level aren't actually laws binding the fiction. They're tools to provide a...

Error. Fallacy of the excluded middle. No one has said that there are no consequences - just that your god or patron can't yoink your...

I dont think that at all. The OP asks specifically "your perfect movie" meaning that its completely subjective. Who CARES what you or I...

Yeah, Mando is absolutely a callback to the whole Western-but-also-Samurai genre that is honestly truer to the origins of Star Wars than...

To me they started the Mandalorian character out as "The Man with No Name" from the Eastwood "Dollars" trilogy. He had the cool factor...

It really is. Fury Road is a movie that does not let up, from start to finish. I could spend an hour praising it, easily. It was a movie...

That has always been my impression, as well. I recall reading somewhere about a tether being used in order to help retain the lance and...