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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...

I do think you're right that there has been a shift over time to the characters overcoming challenges rather than the players. And...

I think it sometimes is, but often is clear as crystal. So I repeat my prior point: our premises are too different. Which is why I'm...

The short term is the only thing the people care about though. How that might things, or other people, down the road isn't relevant to...

It was a large post on LinkedIn, the business platform, where he announced to the world that his designers were below average and...

Yeah. Analysis like this is a literary Rorschach test. There's nothing solid there to grab onto but you're supposed to "see" something...

This would be a fantastic option!!! I'm really excited for the journal option be added to Maps.

Everyone deciding songs are autobiographical, based on zero evidence and much speculation, is also a time-honored tradition. Phil...

I liked AEG better when they were still in the RPG business. I love and loved L5R under their stewardship.

And let's be honest, we're geeks and we love to take things apart to examine them to death and beyond no matter what the author intended...

The "problem" with AI is that it can't truly create; it can only mix and match what already exists. If you replace creative endeavors...

and if the author becomes controversial, you get even more of "what the author really meant"

I long ago learned (and this site helped) that it is often as pointless to discuss literary analysis with people who don’t (or don’t...

At least I got to rewatch "The Prisoner" in that class. it was a good example of being stuck in an interpretation, with the final...