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Making Sense of COVID-19, Part One

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Making Sense of COVID-19, Part One Click Here for Part Two I can still remember when I stopped trusting what either side was saying. It wasn’t a single news story that did it, either. I watched two people I respect come to totally different conclusions from what seemed like the same facts. One saw COVID … Read more

The Best D&D 2e Adventures from Dungeon Magazine, Part 3

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The Best D&D 2e Adventures from Dungeon Magazine, Part 3 Issues 18-38        Issues 39-59 Now that we’re looking at the third and final batch of top AD&D 2nd edition Dungeon adventures, the trend I noticed is a higher proportion of high-level content compared to the mid-level focus seen earlier. This increase in … Read more

Eliminate the Corner Three: A 25-Foot NBA Arc Proposal

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The 25-Foot Arc: A Geometric Solution to NBA Monotony The NBA 5-out Offense Problem The NBA’s current 5-out equilibrium maximizes offensive efficiency but has gutted tactical variance. League-average pace has hit a 30-year high at roughly 102 possessions per 48 minutes, but about 85% of possessions still resolve in the halfcourt through nearly identical geometric … Read more

The Five GMing Philosophies Every Game Master Should Understand

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The Five GMing Philosophies Every Game Master Should Understand Most tabletop RPG rulebooks focus on teaching you the mechanics: they explain how combat works, how armor class is calculated, how to resolve a skill check and how many feet a spell reaches. Very few of them show you how to actually run a game. When … Read more