Fair warning heads-up: January brings the Character Creation Challenge once again! One character a day for 31 days! I'll be going in again this year, for good or ill, my third year running.

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If you give me an interesting question, I'm guaranteed to give you an interesting answer. In this case: Do D&D players have a specific genre that they have trouble adapting to? I would argue the problem is not the genre.

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I love it when I read something that triggers an understanding that had been eluding me. In this case, it's one of the failures of modern media mapping its way into TTRPGs. Obsessive validation.

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Shocking announcement out of Modiphius today: They are doing a Discworld game. Of some sort. Which has not been actually defined. I may have some thoughts.

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Wherein I do a deep dive analysis on the Universal Interaction and Challenge Table mechanics recently posted for the Two Hour Wargames.

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