Take your fantasy world draft. Cut two zeroes from the timeline. If something happened 3000 years ago, it happened 30 years ago. If it was 300 years, it was actually 3. If it doesn’t make sen…| Roll to Doubt
Be confident. If your prep or ideas feel incomplete or uninteresting, run it anyway and let play complete them. Let them speculate, then use their speculations with your twist. If they catch you sh…| Roll to Doubt
This is part of a “blog challenge” I decided to kickstart after discussion on Discord. It would be interesting to hear about how referees prep their games. Prep is the material I need t…| Roll to Doubt
From now on, "new submissions of manuscripts that are published as research articles in Nature will automatically include a link to the reviewers’ reports and author responses." The identity of the reviewers will not be revealed, unless the reviewers themselves choose otherwise. For several years, authors at Nature have had the option to have the peer-review file| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Organizing my Conduct of Play section on a campaign document, I realized I’ve never talked here about it. Players are often advised to Ask Questions, Play Their Characters Well, Take Notes and Be C…| Roll to Doubt
Writing is a continuous process, not segmented into easily contained steps but a molecule that takes pride in amorphous shapes as new connections emerge. One of the ways we keep pace with that mole…| Roll to Doubt
There’s not a single cowboy novel in AD&D’s Appendix N (Boot Hill appendix notwithstanding) nor in B/X’s Recommended Reading, and yet attentive reading of old D&D reveals …| Roll to Doubt
Several publishers have policies that say that a manuscript rejected by one of its journals may be referred to another of its journals. At Wiley, referee reports are transferred along with the manuscript. Here's its policy: Such manuscripts and their peer review reports will be transferred to the receiving journal to expedite any further evaluation| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Maybe you're among those who are hoping for drastic changes to the practices and norms of reviewing manuscripts for publication in philosophy journals. - But if you thought it took too long for that journal to get back to you with a decision on your last paper, well, that was nothing compared to how long| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
This is directed to newbies who are interested in GMing an OSR game. I won’t assume previous experience with TTRPGs at large, although I can imagine that they’re GMs who come from play cultures and…| Roll to Doubt
As I come back to nail down the setting of my next campaign, there’s a need for a consistent approach to create playable elements, instead of accumulating lore that is not actionable. Only th…| Roll to Doubt
Live text is written roleplaying during an assigned time slot. Synchronous play-by-post is another way of putting it, and I suggest reading my previous post on PbP for further considerations on wha…| Roll to Doubt