I did note Dungeon World as a possible alternative if you’re dead-set on D&D as your genre startpoint. I think from a difficulty perspective it probably works just fine...playbook-based character creation also makes things very simple. I also think the PbtA die system as standard is a little punishing...unmodified…

The Deluxe edition of Tunnels and Trolls was released in 2015. That and all other Flying Buffalo publications are available on DriveThruRPG: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2238/Flying-Buffalo

I’d say broadly this is true, but the thrust of the article is certainly implying that the author is running the game for kids who don’t have the attention span. I wouldn’t want to run 5e for kids who couldn’t stay at the table during a rules reference.

Another good recommendation.

Fate Core is both a better designed game than Savage Worlds and has a better-written manual for first-time gamers. I’ve run campaigns in both. If you want an example of stepped dice done well, go Cortex.

You’ve missed the most important potential advice to introducing your kids to role-playing games:

We did driver’s ed through the school, so I ended up taking the test in a driver’s ed car. What was it?

In the time that has elapsed since I’ve purchased my last two cars, both financed at an average rate of between 3 and 4% APR, my brokerage account made 15.5% APY. Consider it a counterargument.

The upper theoretical efficiency limit on any heat engine is the Carnot efficiency, usually notated as 1 - ((cold temp)/(hot temp)), with temperatures in Kelvin. Given a gasoline engine’s combustion temp of around 600 degrees C, in a largely standard environment (0 degrees C), the Carnot efficiency would be…

I was more referring to the tax benefits...in part because Boston is such an achievement hub already, the incremental benefits to the city are fairly small. Amazon should be paying for the costs incurred to the city infrastructure...and if an achievement hub is what Amazon really wanted, Boston should be willing to…

If that is what Amazon is looking for, then you’re right. I don’t think it makes a lot of strategic sense, but I don’t work at Amazon.

To be fair, I’m not arguing the achievement volume. I just don’t think that it matters for a company like Amazon, especially for a second HQ. The benefits of building a symbiotic relationship with a promising but smaller potential hub vastly outweigh the potential benefits of jumping in with everyone else in one of…

This must explain why the MBTA has taken such a dramatic downward fall recently...

And this is exactly why I’d hope that Amazon stays far, far away from Boston. With all the biotech and high-tech firms we already have, the knock-on economic effects are heavily diluted compared to somewhere like Columbus. And with the density, the negative infrastructure consequences are way, way higher.

Yes, that’s right, because as long as you don’t move the bolt you have done no work.

One watt.

What confuses the whole thing is that, given the dimensional analysis used, we do multiply torque by rpm to get horsepower. That said, it’s torque, not horsepower, which is definitionally rotational (a moment on a lever arm as opposed to a push or pull). Torque is assumed to be force per rotation, engine speed is…

I really want to see Dwayne Johnson drive a car full-speed into a painted-on tunnel. The airbag goes off, and there’s a smash cut to inside the car, where The Rock is doing his best “Sideshow Bob got hit by a rake” impression, but is clearly unhurt. Then the music swells up, and Porky Pig is onstage: “Th-th-th-that’s…

The Fast and The Furious is *exactly* on par with Wile E. Coyote insofar as physics goes.

Just directly addressing the claim that Acuras are always heavier than Hondas. 2006 is of course an awkward year being a generational switchover.