Posts in Written by: Cameron
Cameron's Book Round-Up, 2024, part 7

We near the zero-hour on the election, the genocide enters its second year, and Broken Hands moves locations. But, at the very least, October brings a break in the heat.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anything: A Sketch of a Philosophy of Language.

But being exposed at 14 to the idea, “the people who exercise power over you can be loudly and confidently incorrect,” actually had a strong effect on who I am today. It’s encouraged me to admit when I make mistakes in class, and it’s encouraged me to think critically about the information I’m presented with. But I think this is also the genesis of a fairly important idea for me, but not for the above reasons. You see, it’s also where I discovered that being correct or incorrect doesn’t always matter.

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This Petard Has My Name On It: Fixing D&D 5th Edition

As mentioned previously, my purpose here is not to say “5E can do all of what these other games do” – it can’t, that’s why I’ve got to steal these mechanics for a game I agreed to run. My hope, actually, is that other people might try out these mechanics in their game, and then maybe see that these other games, despite being different from what they’re used to, are actually a lot of fun.

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