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I'm a long time lurker. Not posted before and I post on forums extremely infrequently even when I do. Too much going on in the real life unfortunately. A bit of background: I work as a Graphic Designer, Web Designer/Developer. I'm also an artist when I have free time. I've also been building my...

Similar to the Writings on Role-Playing thread I thought it may be helpful to have a thread about books on the history, practice and theory of wargaming. I'm just starting to dig into some of these now that I have access to academic libraries again with my newish job. Here is one that is...

(In the Jeff Rients sense of the word.) And every time you try to scrub the Stupid out of D&D, you end up scrubbing the D&D out.

So, the OTU has PCs dealing with the secrets of the Ancients and even the Primordials from time to time, but nary a word is said as to how that really affects a character's sanity, let alone their understanding of how (and why) humans were scattered throughout the stars (as well as why the...