Hobbies & Games > Role Playing & War Games Understanding the basic principles of role-playing games

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To understand tabletop roleplaying, you've got to look beyond the dice and hitpoints and spells per day, beyond the dragons and elves and kobolds, and examine roleplaying itself, as an activity. This isn't as easy or obvious as it might sound. Many people, when they set out to define it, end up describing the trees rather tha... More..

Hobbies & Games > Role Playing & War Games How to get the most out of role-playing games

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To get the most out of roleplaying games, you should know what you want out of them in the first place. This is probably the single most neglected step of organizing and playing an RPG, based on the vague notion that everyone will just do what they want to do and it will all come together somehow. The idea that everyone "just... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Nonassimilation: Bowing to the rights of the few over the rights of the many

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As long as there exists a multiplicity of cultures, ethnicities an lifestyles in interaction with each other, there will be controversy raging over the accommodation of various beliefs and customs by society and government. Stories circulate, both factual and apocryphal, of the secularization and sterilization of Christian-ba... More..

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