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He writes about games from time to time. You can sense the friendly frustration. I wish he’d take a sabbatical from Professor-ing and, like, Creative Assembly could hire him to consult on a total war game.
He also has a great collection of his posts that are particularly useful for aspiring authors and rpg game masters:
There is only so much realism you can inject before it detracts from the fun. The author occasionally even references this during his analysis on how some mechanic would be required for simplicity or balancing a rock-paper-scissors troop counters.