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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...

Gotcha. (Though, for the record, Apple doesn't have one either).

He fared better than Gerald Ratner at least, who lost the world’s largest jewelry retail group.

I am still too much of a fan of pen-and-paper so I print out my custom character sheets, but if I were to make a digital version of them...

Sure. But it also is a rather common form of railroading.

Usually that absolutely nothing interesting will happen outside of the path.

Given the change in power levels it would be a fairly big pain in the rear to convert that many powers and feats.

FATAL has negative consequences of sexual assaults upon the victim (sometimes gruesomely accurate ones)... that can render the victim a...

You only think that because (a) your own experience is limited and (b) since the article gained its pernicious influence people have...

Nah, it's relatively accurate for except for NordicLARP. No more an issue then calling people 'Killers, Explorers, Achievers' etc, etc.

A binary choice is nothing like enough. As mentioned, game books and early computer games generally present more. The most obvious lack...

Yes he does. The very first thing every fighter in the setting learns is a fighting style and second wind. None of them can learn...

So how did that story end exactly? Remind me. No, it's absolutely an offense and disrespect to basically all creative professions...

More than a mess, it's a subtle attack on anyone who plays the game in a way the author disapproves of. Let's put people in little boxes...