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This is a lesson that applies to your game table and to life in general. I recently watched the documentary Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. The filmmaker is an evolutionary biologist who takes a hard look at the debate behind teaching evolution versus intelligent design, but who also looks at the approach that proponents of both methods use in making their arguments. In one ...
While at Gen Con I met and hung out with some very nice people. Not just fellow gamers, but also industry insiders (who in the end were also fellow gamers). I had a very strong impression that anyone could spend some time with their favorite game designer, artist, or author at Gen Con. No one turned me away, and every professional that I met made some time for ...
Have you ever heard the following said at a gaming convention, game shop, or at the game table? “The average RPG player is smarter than most people.” Maybe you have never heard that exact phrase, but phrases that imply the same thing count for the purpose of this article. RPGs are full of wonderful mental exercises. You must read and usually apply basic math skills ...
Today is Veterans Day in the United States, also known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in many other countries.
Serving in the military is simultaneously dangerous, boring, stressful, exhausting, and frustrating. And the pay frankly sucks. But it’s also one of the most satisfying jobs you can ever hold. Soldiers (and sailors, airmen, and marines) not only volunteer for it, quite a few of them reenlist, and even ...
