As a professional mathematician, I must also point out that you should also consider the possibility that your model is wrong. Specifically, you do not have a fair, balanced coin.
I'm not a Bayesian, but this scenario does call out for one.
It’s the only logical reason
I ama high-prep GM; I spend more time prepping than running games, so GMing multiple games a week would just be way too much -- the quality of my games would drop.
At peak, I'd be running one game a week and playing in 1.5 / week
Governor Pritzker and Rev. Jesse Jackson at Mayor Harold Washington's Centennial Birthday Celebration in 2022.
Rev. Jesse Jackson was a giant of the civil rights movement.
He broke down barriers, inspired generations, and kept hope alive. Our state, nation, and world are better due to his years of service.
I’m ordering flags to half-mast to honor him.
May his memory be a blessing.
Does he have any actual experience of TTRPGs, or is this just from the pretty random group of people he interviewed? Between his AI slop images and statements that Paizo is an indie company, and that there are few non-GenX D&D players I don't really find him that believable.
Are they making me buy more 13th Age scenarios? The bastards...
What's coming from Chaosium in the first half of 2026?
Check this out!
Stay tuned for more info on each as we get closer to release!
Which of these are you most excited for?
I ran MERP and then LOTR Rolemaster as my first long-running campaign too, over 30 years ago! I have or had many of these, and am curently using the MORIA MERP book to supplement my One Ring Moria campaign!
Apart from the cheating issues, is there any evidence that he was good at his job when Brady wasn't a factor?
Some of the best games I've ever played have been 13th Age, it's a wonderful system. I'm really hoping to get it to the table as either a player or a GM at some point this year myself
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"AI" is currently being used for many systems. ML, Speech analysis & Image analysis is definitely here to stay. This article is mostly about the other extreme - chatbots. In between are non-chat GenAI use cases which, even at 10x the price are often still worth doing.
My foreword will mostly be WHY IS ADRIAN SO MUCH BETTER AT THIS THAN ME, but, you know, tasteful AND NOT JEALOUS AT ALL
I then ran a Mindjammer (Fate) campaign heavily leaning into Iain Banks' culture series (one character played a ship mind). Also recommended, but it is high crunch so mentioning it mostly for other following your post.
My son ran us through a Bulldogs (Fate Core) game and it worked excellently. Contacts and Resources skills were a big feature, zone-based combat suits sci-fi well, and I'm a big fan of making equipment special by giving them aspects (we tagged our spaceship's Fancy Bar so many times ...)
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
"there is no mechanical reason to coordinate" and his belief that initiative systems cause this seems way off. Having played D&D4E / PF2 with very non-RP players, they are most engaged with each other when discussing tactics within the initiative system - there IS a strong mechanical advantage.
I agree -- even in very trad games, if the players engage with each other, I find the GM only interrupts this for pacing reasons, not because they feel the need to be the conduit. Some GMs are unhappy if the players try to create a new story element, but that's really a different issue.
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Time to read the Silverberg short story ‘Caught in the Organ Draft’ !
2/3 10 years ago today I wrote a retrospective on the "Being Poor" piece, talking about why I wrote it, how it had gone out into the world after I wrote it, and my thoughts on some of the responses to it.
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One of the longest stories Jesus told, mentioned in multiple gospels, is in fact exactly this.
Even a quick skim of the Bible shows that pretty much every mention of hell or a rough equivalent is linked to rich people and religious people who didn’t actually care for others. Very explicitly. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise
I ran **Nemesis 382** from this collection at Gen Con the year after it came out and had a fantastic time. Players loved it and it had some seriously strong and emotion-filled moments; pretty rare for a Con game. This pot reminds me I should run another of these at another con!
ANGELS IN AMERICA at the Invictus theater in Chicago — fantastic performances; great direction and a very intimate experience. Highly recommended!
My youngest asserted it to me, and requested I validate her statement. I have pledged so to do.
An odd but satisfying game. I think defeating a mime was one of the peak experiences of the game for me. They are More Than A Little Scary.
Origins game fair day one. My Tengu fighter does well against giant sewer crocodiles, but will fare less well against a pair of Rakshasa spell-casters
Young elves paint paintings and grow gardens. Older elves discuss how to adjust river flow so the mountains will look better in a few millennia.
