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Glorantha. The incredible depth of the setting coupled with the way everyday life influences and is influenced by mythic elements makes it stand out to me like no other. My favorite adventures have revolved around the edges of Prax including Pavis and the Big Rubble, as well as heroquesting...

Getting the balance right on encounter building guidelines is kind of a widespread problem across the whole hobby. There are so many variables that even fairly reliable ones (I'd call 4e D&D one after the "math fix" dropped around MM2/Essentials) aren't perfect, and some systems don't even...

The phrasing on "Inaccurate challenge ratings" is really specific to D&D, and not even all editions of D&D. Should we assume it means "guidelines for combat encounter balance produce inaccurate results" or something along those lines? That's a distinct problem from the more generic "Balance...

Different people like different things. I can't say why you find it boring, but the depressing part comes with the territory when you're talking noir fiction regardless of the media format. Even the "happiest" noir ending tends to be bittersweet and costly, and Bebop isn't one of the happiest...

Grief, there's six of the things already and they're apparently only on floor eight of eighteen in the mega-dungeon. This is going to get milked for a good long while to come. They may great, but I'm getting Castle Perilous and Myth Adventures flashbacks just thinking about buying in to this.

That's specialized professional vocabularies for you.

Meaning your fillings are tracking you via GPS, relaying audio signals to the Kremlin and one of them includes a cyanide capsule?

I really need to just stop looking at orange threads. All of them.

Because the second image could have been anything as far as I knew (I still can't see an Orcus in that shadowy mess) and the exact same meme template was used to compare old versus new art in the very next post. Heck, if you want Orcus, this is Orcus: Sculpts over drawings, every time.

I'm between games at the moment, but all four of the last groups left me satisfied with the table. The rules, not quite so much over time hence "between games", and for one group things ended as half the table graduated and moved away which just happens with college students. Even grads leave...

I'm still hoping to retire to Grand Fenwick someday.

Honestly, I'd've suggested "blood of a nestle-cock" instead, but so few people will know the term that it might be taken as unreasonably offensive. And let me just thank a good reference library for that one and a rare opportunity to use a double contraction.

He seems more choleric than phlegmatic, although bilious is a fair descriptor on several levels. The thesaurus suggests quite a lot of opposites of "tiger" in the sense of "one who accomplishes their goals" but none fit here very well. The opposite of "one of great drive, ambition and...

Looking back at the various art designs for these folks over the years, I'm struck by the fact that they really do not look right when someone tries to add a pair of separate humanoid arms to the four-limbed version. The rather alien look of the aarakocra with their weapons gripped in their...

So the May/June issue is up over here and while it's mostly business as usual (although Pirates of Drinax comic seems to be longer than ever) it's got one new feature - there's a solo board game called Chamax Escape. Based on the events in the LBB Chamax Plague/Horde double adventure, you play...