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hot take:Combat is not something distinct from 'role-playing'. Far from it! Violence is an emotionally intense situation that can bring out parts of a character you wouldn't otherwise see. A

OK so, combat in RPGs.There are basically three outcomes: -The PCs win-The PCs withdraw to avoid defeat-The PCs are defeated (all dead, captured, whatever)Then maybe there's some attrition, where their

OK so I'm not sure what hasbro plans to do to de-racism D&D, but they've got their fucking work cut out, because the game is fundamentally built on justifying the

There is a certain sort of snobbery (generally on the part of people who don't venture far outside of 'dungeons&violence' in their games) towards games which focus mechanically on social

Thoughts on fantasy races:(disclaimer, I am very white, so take what I say with a pinch of salt and listen to the voices of marginalised people over me.)So I think

Here's a thought. There's a bunch of marginalised people doing OSR stuff on this platform. Hello, I am one of them, and I am *far from* alone. I'm aware I'm

OK. Here comes a difficult, if probably quite short, thread. I imagine a bunch of this is going to be no surprise at all to a lot of you, but

Vancian spellcasting makes perfect sense, I don't get how it's confusing.Here's how it works: >Casting a spell is a lengthy ritual requiring precision and concentration.>When you cast a spell like

Like it baffles me that D&D games don't put more, like, emotional weight on camping. Like... you've probably got less tents than PCs, right? So... who's sharing a tent together?If

comfortable privileged people need to wake the fuck up to the total nightmare that the last decade of tory cruelty has been. People are shadenfreuding at bojo the clown because

So the fact that RPG Twitter is doing a discussion about safety tools right now, and that's great.But. -My feed is filled with 'just don't put that in your games'

here's a thing that pisses me off.I like horrible stuff in my games. I find it engaging to have to deal with and overcome unpleasant shit. If I wanna play