Sometimes it can seem like roleplay games always come down to dungeons filled with dwarves and goblins hacking at each other with swords. Just studying t-shirts at a gaming con tends to imply a homoge

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Say “Rainforest”, and the average sailor will conjure up an image of some exotic tropical landscape covered in jungle that is home to a diverse array of plants and animals. I first came across such a

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T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

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