The Large Polyhedron Collider is a blog created to offer ideas and advice to those who play, run, and design role-playing games.  It is staffed by 12 contributors, representing nearly 200 years of combined roleplaying experience, ranging from some who cut their teeth on the original D&D, first-edition AD&D, first-edition Vampire, all the way up to those who have played for many years but only recently begun to run games.  In addition to experience with RPGs, each contributor brings their own knowledge of various subjects through professional expertise and personal interest to help in game, setting, story, and character design, providing advice that can save countless hours of research and analysis.  Categories of articles include:

Overthinking It - advice for adding more detail (arguably too much) to your settings and stories
A Stitch in Time - suggestions for thoughts on saving the GM time in planning, and time saving tips during a game session
Building the Perfect System - discussing the pros and cons of various systems
Book Reviews - both RPG books and related fiction, with occasional Good Cop/Bad Cop reviews when two of us strongly disagree
Ask the GM - readers' questions get answered in this GM advice column

Four articles are posted, with many more in the queue.  Dr. Girlfriend writes an overview of natural hazards in the first post of a series about the devastating effects of mother nature and incorporating natural disasters into games.  Dr. Nemesis gives his advice on handling scores of faceless henchmen during combat, to ensure that the game isn't bogged down.  Dr. Gentleman rants about the problems with cumulative damage systems in RPGs in the first of many posts about ways to make combat more engaging.  Finally, Dr. Waterhouse gives his opinions on the book Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

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Update to the Large Polyhedron Collider - a look at an often neglected and marginalized source of damage: falling.

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LPC update - the first in a long series of posts ranting about combat systems in RPGs.

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Update-
Dr. Waterhouse gives an honest review of The Ark, by Boyd Morrison.  
Also, the highly anticipated (by me, anyway) second installment of my series 'A New Look at Combat.'
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Update-
Third installment of 'A New Look at Combat.'
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LPC update -
Dr. Girlfriend answers a question about dealing with character death and continues her series on natural disasters with an article about landslides.
I continue my examination of RPG combat systems by introducing the idea of tactical methods and their importance to an engaging combat.
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New post continuing the discussion of tactical methods for characters in combat.
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LPC update -

Dr. Waterhouse reviews Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey.
Also, the last post laying out the foundation in the New Look at Combat series by Dr. Gentleman.

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Update-

The first post in my 'New Look at Combat' series about building a combat system from the ground up.

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LPC update:

Dr. Waterhouse reviews the sequel to Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War. Be aware that it contains spoilers to Leviathan Wakes.

Dr. Gentleman continues his series about combat, discussing the importance of viable options other than damage.

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Large Polyhedron Collider blog update:

Dr. Girlfriend continues her series on natural disasters with a post about earthquakes.

Dr. Gentleman gets into the crunchy bits of his series about combat, outlining the basic mechanics of tactics and how they work with range.

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Update:

The tenth post in my New Look at Combat series, which finally starts slinging numbers around.

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LPC update:

Dr. Waterhouse reviews Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling.

Dr. Gentleman gives a simplified alternative to his tactical system.

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Big LPC update:

Dr. Waterhouse reviews Alchemy by E. J. Holmyard, and gives a tip on the importance of naming NPCs.

Dr. Girlfriend continues her series on natural disasters with a post about volcanoes.

And finally Dr. Gentleman gives a two examples of his new look at combat.

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Another LPC update:

Dr. Girlfriend continues her series on natural disasters with a post about caves and other karst features.

Dr. Gentleman gives another example of his new look at combat, and continues the series with a post about multiple opponents.

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