A dice tray. After years of dropping dice on the floor and having them gradually spread out over the table its great to just keep them all together.

at sounds terrible. Linking xp and character advancement to killing has been an issue for a long time. since the early days of D&D. Certainly a character trying to follow jedi philosophy while also fighting highlights that especially egregiously. Maybe video games should take a leaf out of RPGs again, and think more…

Its debatable as to who played the largest role in creating Dungeons and dragons itself, but i think it’s largely accepted that it was Arneson and his group that invented the idea if RPGs as a whole.

This list is excellent, but is needs to feature Ursula Le Guin.

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Really you just need the players hand book and some dice. Everything else you can make up yourself. Sure prewritten campaigns can be fun, but they are also pricey, and I tend to think that their utility is over stated.

Really you just need the players hand book and some dice. Everything else you can make up yourself. Sure prewritten…

With a post credits scene.

I do wonder how trolls would fare if there wasn’t a culture of annonimity online. It seems as though companies like Facebook and Google can increasingly tell who you are regardless of what witty user name you pick. But there is still the idea that you don’t have to put your name to things you say online, and so can…

Agreed, I don’t like to put anything online that I wouldn’t put my name to. Clearly not everyone feels that way, but the fact that anonymity has become so normalised as a part of online discourse is fascinating. I’d love to see what historians in the future will make of the online “society” which we are a part of.…

I think its also interesting that online discourse has been built around a foundation of anonymity. I am not publishing this comment under my real name, and very few people using this site do so. Instead we have usernames and handles which make it far easier to create fake accounts, and proliferate the kind of…

The more I read about this game the more fascinating it seems. At what point does a video game become a social experiment?

Great stuff! In my experience anyone who successfully GM’s their first game is usually hooked for life.

I really like the idea of Kick Spirits and Spectral Slugs. I imagine that kick spirits are like invisible stalkers, but created by apprentice wizards with a love of practical jokes. I can just imagine them summoning them to harass the librarians of the wizard’s guild.
An infestation of Spectral slugs would be a…

Sounds like a really fun game. I’d say bard is probably one of the best choices for this sort of game, since they have both magic, and skills, and can be built to be decent archers, or swordsmen. Its easier to cover all the bases now than it was in previous editions, but I’d still probablygo fir a bard if I need to.

I always understood that Palpatine exacerbated her injuries using the force, as he knew that if she survived it would allow her to potentially redeem Vader. It also should have prevented her baby from growing up to overthrow him, although clearly that bit didn’t work out so well.

Elected monarchies have absolutely existed at various points in history. It makes perfect sense for her to continue to represent her people in the senate after standing down as queen. Leia’s princess title doesn’t come from either her biological mother, or her adoptive father, but rather from her adoptive mother, who…

3.5 descriptions generally alternate gender, so that whenever it starts talking about a new character it switches.

Yeah, I was going to post this if no one else had. The board game is great.

It is an amazingly nuanced series. The scene where Aang is about to face the firelord and goes to talk to his past lives always gives me chills. The way they tell him that enlightenment isn’t his fate, and as Avatar he is doomed to be reincarnated forever really hits home.
I’m curious to see what they do in the post…

In some ways its worse for an RPG than for wargaming. I agree that you would be limited in what scenarios you could play, but you could get good mileage out of it for a variety of stand alone skirmish games. to sustain an RPG campaign you need such a larger scope and varied environment that it would only be useful for…