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Six Ways to Worship a God You're Afraid Of
In most fantasy, religion is wallpaper. Make the god real, present, and dangerous, and worship becomes strategy: six ways to live with what you cannot fight, flee, or love.
Jelte ten Holt··11 min read
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Spell Lists Are a Failure of Imagination
A spell list is a menu. Treat spells as sentences instead, a verb on an object, and a handful of symbols covers a near-infinite range.
Jelte ten Holt··5 min read
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D&D Is Not Roleplaying
A player thanks D&D for a moment the rules never allowed. Mistaking one game for the whole hobby quietly costs it players.
Jelte ten Holt··4 min read