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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’m going to start with three… 1. Discord communities and VTT have for the first time meant that I can have a real time gaming group...

Yes. Obviously, there was a lot of human-generated slop before the rise of our AI overlords. Since the dawn of time actually, before...

I don't know that that's true. There's a LOT of indie stuff which has nothing to do with D&D, and doesn't use the OGL. Just take a look...

Sure, but they might like some different ones, and some different monsters. Or they may put backgrounds and species in with a...

I have made extensive use of my copy of MotM. Didn't feel like a waste to me at all.

While I think it’s clear that hiring another actor - literally any other suitable actor - would probably have made for a better scene...

I don't disagree with you that it sounds like a nice idea. However, I don't think that it will ever happen. They are far more likely to...

Geez, maybe it would have been better to recast an actor who actually, you know, wanted to be there?

Exactly. Someone who’d actually want to do this, has been to acting classes, put the work in, etc - they’d probably be being pushed by...

You can also make a book by piling sentences into it. One of the biggest problem at the moment is not that AI can make things. it is...

Dang! I hadn't seen that before (I don't follow much board game news), but as thankful as I am for him championing the OGL into reality...

Ratner lost more than a job. He lost his own company and empire, and hundreds of millions of pounds. He ended up with a national slang...

I've been out of the tabletop loop for a decade. I've dabbled in 5e, savage worlds, dungeon worlds (apoc system), and now I want to try...