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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...

Insightful point about the 'Guardian vs Raider' pivot. The DFCB project is precisely about that friction. To solve the 'buy-in' problem...

Ex. That scene from the first Dune movie where Alia forced the head of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood into telling everyone who her...

Since they haven't done physical item fulfillment yet, they're probably not ready to start selling to non-backers. But I would...

That was never going to happen, no matter how you calculate it. Yes, a common engine with enough support will remove a lot of demand...

I was there. Yes, that was the plan.

No, but they do tell the designers, “stop using Unearthed Arcana to test meaningful new rules changes. From now on, it’s just a way to...

I like doing the work. Just in the last few years, I've run a completely classless game of 5e (characters got feats every level, and...

Yes. He made the classic management mistake of badly underestimating the difficulty of the job being done by his staff. He then...

Have you made, or are you interested in making, one for Starfinder 2e?

I'm in one right now (play by post). My Battlemaster 8 is a mounted knight and also the roving recruiter for the King's Army. Skilled...

Nah, the real issue is that Hazbro suits are so out of touch they think asking the players for feedback on the direction of the game is...

Indeed. I literally attended a training session last week and again yesterday because we are now required to use AI to generate our...

I agree with your post overall, but we do have some additional context about this now. According to @mearls, the original intent for...