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Managing a table of ten players is less like storytelling and more like air traffic control. In the heat of my weekly library sessions...

February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

it's been proven over and over that it's not stealing. Training is not stealing. Generative AI learn EXACTLY like people do. They see...

I hope she sells this at Gen Con!

My wife comes to mind…

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It's not gatekeeping to suggest that people who steal things not charge me for their product. I'm happy to share my knowledge and fun...

I'd argue most other activities in games aren't realtime, either. Even social ones.

The primary question seems to be opportunity cost. I don't doubt it can feel effective in some circumstances, the question in my mind...

I prefer the more granular nature of the skill list, so you can model specifically what the character knows and is good at, since not...

Even non-pool systems that use, say, 3D6, things like that tend to get less lost in the noise than they do in a D20 or D100 system (and...

I think the bolded steps are the place where a well designed skill system can come in and meaningfully change gameplay. The downsides...

I am a huge fan of Rolemaster from days of old but I don't know if I could handle it in 2026. One of the things I'm really interested in...

My wife comes to mind…

I think that in systems where roll is dice pool based (Burning Wheel and its cousins, BitD and its cousins, Prince Valiant, etc) people...