Yeah, as a German the settlement patterns within most D&D settings looked deeply weird to me. But for all of its pseudo-European trappings, D&D owes at least as much to the tropes of the “Wild West” genre.

The problem is that cities are usually dependent on the resources of the surrounding countryside. You have to protect the fields and the mines as well, unless you can somehow produce all that stuff within the city walls.

Keith Baker always encouraged this kind of creative reskinning of classes.

And, of course, the privilege of superbeings has been explored in #ttrpg before, such as in the setting of Aberrant.

Eberron is one of my favorite DnDoid settings, precisely because the designers put a lot of thoughts into this stuff.

Seoni, the “Iconic Sorcerer” from the Pathfinder RPG.

I rarely have buyer’s regret for TTRPG products, but Carcosa ranks high on that list. The “Sorcerous Rituals” section is maybe worst - do we really need a detailed list of how sorcerers sacrifice humans to work their magic? Not to mention one ritual (“Consign to the Lightless Lake”) where the sorcerer actually rapes his victim.

I will never buy anything from Geoffrey McKinney again.

Done. Thanks for the suggestion!

They are! Click on the link under “Source” in each article.

Curse this mobile interface!

Sorry, I accidentally deleted the link to the article. You should be able to check it out now!

Sorry, I messed up the link. It should be fixed now.

It’s on the big link list at Wikisource:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Sagen

I’ve only browsed through it a bit, but the Occult dragons are appropriately creepy.

No one has mentioned Reign yet?

Its basic assumption is that the PCs are all part of a “Company” - an organization that might range from a small mercenary band to a large kingdom - which interacts with other such groups and organizations, and PC actions can improve the odds for the Company to succeed.

Interesting thoughts. My main exposure to OSR is via the works of Sine Nomine Publishing - their worldbuilding tools, in particular. I haven’t actually played or run any OSR games, but this look at their design philosophy is appreciated.

For anyone wondering about the photo, I believe this is the Catacombes underneath Paris. I visited it 2 weeks ago, it really looks like this. I am fairly sure this is a really photo.

Indeed it is, as I have mentioned in the Alt Text. 😉

Shadowrun 1E. Yes, I am that old.

No matter how good this game might be, I am not giving my money to an alt-right supporter.

Also, ich könnte viel über Merkel sagen, aber “dumm” ist sie nicht. Alleine schon daß sie es in der Männer-dominierten CDU bis an die Spitze gebracht hat und so lange Kanzlerin blieb zeigt von ihrer Intelligenz.

Mein Problem mit ihr war, daß sie dem Land 16 Jahre Stillstand besorgt hat. Aber man sollte ihre Intelligenz auf keinen Fall unterschätzen.

How well does chat AI do when it comes to representation?

One huge flaw of AI-based systems I keep on hearing about is that they tend to repeat the biases of their training data.