I maintain that the only reasonable response is to suggest that anyone who opposes animal testing step up and volunteer to replace them. Otherwise, they can get out of the way.

Recently Mike Mearls posted his approach to dealing with HP and long night's rests, countered by one of the authors of Hyperborea. I point out why both of them are wrong and a possible approach to a better

It's true, sometimes the only feudal/fantasy giant robot ideas in people's head are Visions of Escaflowne. But there's a whole lot more in the genre than that (even leaving aside BattleTech). #TTRPG #mecha

In which I reinterpret a marshal, praise and damn The Red Room, and advocate for not just the Death of the Author but extend it to the Death of the Reader. Politics in RPGs at the table? Yes, please! #TTRPG

Ben Robbins recently posted a blog about definitions of games, Story Games, and defining the edge of the big tent, with which I have some studied contention. #TTRPG #StoryGames

We've come to the gift-giving season, so what do you get for the discerning fantasy gamer who wants to get away from D&D, Hasbro, and Wizards of the Coast? I've got a little list! #TTRPG #fantasy #gifts

Why is it a bad idea to try and talk about, think about, and treat role-playing games as an ever-increasing technology? There are good reasons. #TTRPG #technology

See, I believe that in my case, when I have another portal that opens into a sub-oceanic location, my general urge is to pop back to the nether and simply keep going in the same direction for another chunk

It's very difficult to resist an implicit challenge. If you ask me, how would I do Star Wars Jedi in Starforged? At some point, I have to sit down and figure it out. If I'm going to sit down and figure

Unusual for me to make two posts in the same day, but, sometimes absolutely world-shattering news comes across your desk, and you have to talk about the literal formation of new artifacts for Unknown Armies.

I've never really been looking for perfection. Really, all I've ever wanted was a nice solid blogging platform with a decent layout and relatively high ease of use when it comes to editing. That's it.

I was thinking about how much tabletop RPG gaming I have on tap at any given moment and wanted to jot down why it is that I don't think I've wasted my life. And why I have every setting idea ever made

Several models. Actually, I'd have to run through the list to re-contextualize them all, but a surprising number of them do not really take that much of a machine to run them either. A 3060 with a decently

Well, for one, I've already done it. There doesn't seem to be any more challenge to be milked out of that particular approach to the data space. But perhaps worse, on the other hand, is that the same people

Largely Stable Diffusion running locally, truth be told. I like the control.

Some ideas just don't fit into 250 characters. That's a good thing. It's particularly nice that we have the option.

If you give me an interesting question, I'm guaranteed to give you an interesting answer. In this case: Do D&D players have a specific genre that they have trouble adapting to? I would argue the problem

If this is your fear, I don't suggest you ever go into journalism. Let me tell you — even if you are looking to get paid for a piece, and you know that you're going to get paid for a piece, you will always

It's hard to refer to this as anything but "evolution in action."

Where does the failure of the "modern audiences" pitch intersect with problems within the TTRPG hobby? I have a few thoughts, but you may not like them. That's part of the problem. #TTRPG #writing