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To the blog post, fitting names are something that happens in real life too. For example there's a statistical bump in the number of dentists named Denis. In general this happens in a lot of professions. There's also a statistical bump in people with the same letter in their first names getting marr...

A convention in naming that I like a lot is where you don't keep your name your whole life. We see this to a limited extent when a childhood friend goes from Katie to Kate. Some cultures are more extreme. A co-worker I knew years ago moved from the middle East to the US and his father changed his na...

Not exactly the same thing but we were playing a space opera in which the players were delivering medical aid to a planet. When they landed I described a small farmhouse in the distance. A PC with keen eyesight observed the farm and said there were things moving around that looked like ants to her. ...

I think I've finished my song adaptation. I fixed a lot of problems with the above lyrics. Now I can get to the part that I actually know, making a game out of it!

Ok, good to hear it's being worked on.

Pirates arrogantly walk in your door. Are you expecting them or are you grabbing a weapon?

I've heard that there won't be a QCC next year.

Does it have to be OSR? Or can this be just a trad game? First you'd reintroduce the GM rolling for things. Monsters hitting etc. You'd have to figure out how to model defense. The main thing (imo) that pbta does is to combine the effects of opposition into one roll. You'd have to rebuild that someh...

This is a cool turn based strategy game with mechs of different types. I think Chris mentioned it on the podcast a while back. I've been wanting to play for a long time, I'm a big fan of FTL and mechs so natural fit. Play is crunchy and I love it. It really takes some thought to be successful. It's ...

Thanks Mr. Mander, I usually ask for players impressions after a session and we tend to run campaign games so there have been plenty of conversations about how the players see their characters. The questionnaire might be useful for one shots and con games where there isn't that time. I try to do a s...