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Without restating OP's lines too much, I think there's a skill that can be developed in allowing dialogue with a game instead of waiting its turn to be called on.

Reading this while thinking of the common refrain that people like games that "get out of the way". That, either because of mistrust or urgency or what have you, players come to a game with an idea of what fun they're "supposed" to have ahead of time.

"you're gonna get in trouble"
"Ok"

Perfectly encapsulates where we are right now

Watching a complete bystander wander into ttrpg discourse minefield

Asking Miyazaki if he feels like releasing monthly DLCs and he throws a stapler at my head

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Pokemon is Shadowrun but cooler

I didn't even like Jesse that much but Dylan is literally the last person I would choose

*slams the table* Cover Locus you cowards!!

What if Shyamalan's The Habbening habbened and now 15 years later the plants are walking around and talking to us

The Man Who Bought And Sold D&D Peter Adkison on the ups and downs of running Wizards of the Coast in the ‘90s.

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For history week last year, we interviewed Peter Adkison about what it was like to be at the centre of one of the most dramatic events in RPG history.

I still want to know why a world with free healthcare has a terrorist organization whose motto is "to denounce the evils of truth and love"

I am a ttrpg freak so I'm not interested in Dungeons and Optimized Dragons and the Ampersand fans are not interested in DOD so I'm not surprised it's hard to pull numbers for that. Have you tried writing an article about the Tactical Hell Invasion game or JRPG TTRPG or Dishonored Gang Wars?

With all due respect to the writers at Polygon, maybe covering indie ttrpgs doesn't do numbers like DnD because you're covering "DnD-but-X" and not something new.

"can you have sex with the pokemon?" Is a less interesting question than "what happens after people start having sex with the pokemon?"

What if you had Monster Hunter during the Palico Civil Rights movement

There's still an unfilled niche for "adult pokemon" IE a near-future scifi where you can explore the social and political dynamics of a society being rebuilt during the integration of a new type of people.

I think tabletop games are a lot like videogames in the sense that they are not inherently challenging but rather require learning a subset of skills and lingo - any individual game not difficult for an outsider so much as learning to game is the initial challenge.

A dogleg deburrer

Lots of work goes into simplifying and shrinking the information overhead in reading/learning modern ttrpgs but very little effort is made to "teach" them. You either intuitively understand what a ttrpg is or you need someone to explain it to you.

I think ttrpgs have this thing specifically and recently where they are being designed - from a UX and marketing perspective - to target non-gamers but systematically they are unconsciously designed for ttrpg gamers.

I mean, whether that matters or not is heavily dependent on whether your audience is gamers or non-gamers

Who wants to play a Strange Journey-like where I painted all the enemies?

Vegeta performing final blast

It's true my hedgehog does this

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The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

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Infinite Revolution (Part 2) Should the stars go out too?

The conclusion to our critique of Infinite Revolution! So, how does one do a bullet hell TTRPG? And how well can one dance a triangle with the infinite of the cosmos and the veil?

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Are you a fucking ballerina my dude

Literal battlefield looters took less from the dead than the average gamer

Imagine the time and intention that goes into harvesting from a hunted animal. Look at how much that act is abstracted and optimized into a single button press - and then also applied to people.