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— REVISED DEFINITIONS OF THE VERB “TO GOOGLE” – “To receive results as ten-second videos that present a sponsored product as the only possible answer to your question.” — Become “the World’s Worst Cleric” in a medieval game inspired by Disco Elysium. — A new website seeking to define the term “liberal”. It’s common media…
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Somewhere I recall reading that for elite athletes, the winning combination was genetic talent, the will to succeed, and the presence of a father or close family member with the capability and drive to act as a secondary coach. I thought about that when reading this interview with Rudy Kraft, one of the earliest writers…
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“I don’t define myself by my hobbies, let alone feel the need to broadcast my interests in them through textiles.”
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“One of the greatest joys of roleplaying games, at least for me, lies in the continuity of a long campaign: the way characters grow, change, and accumulate history over time…”
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“It’s a love letter to countless aspects and legends of music, art, and culture, and its passion to demonstrate this is all too clear: The Artful Escape exists to be enjoyed. As with all good love letters, it also ends on a remarkably emotional crescendo.”
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Eve Online is a massive, multiplayer game featuring thousands of players who navigate the universe in spaceships, make trade deals and form alliances. When one player missed a routine payment, it opened part of the world to an online invasion. The invasion and defense thrust in-game generals into combat against each other, in total the…
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One Way to Frame a Dungeon. Build dungeons around disasters. If the dungeon is a disaster site, every NPC has a reason to be there. The Dungeon as a Mythic Underworld. A dungeon should be more than rooms. A dungeon is a place of myth: “…it is an underworld: a place where the normal laws…
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