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The past 5 years, I've been diving deep into survival colony builder video games. RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress, Oxygen Not Included, Norland, Stranded: Alien Dawn, Clanfolk all have 50+ hours of play (30x that for RW lol), so I obviously like this kind of game. But, I've never really thought about...

So in PT, magic is rare, untrusted, and dangerous. But magic is really none of those things in D&D. The Wild Mage sorcerer can be random, but the effects are fairly tame and often actually helpful. So I'm throwing around some ideas for house rules to make magic less cozy and reliable, using...

The previews have been okay, but this review is what has me stoked. This kind of adventure is right up my alley. Can't wait for it to show up!

I, for one, am very pleased with the different options for existing classes over completely different classes. I don't really have an balance thoughts. Balance isn't an issue with me unless it's incredibly flagrant.

So, I was checking what the encounters that it looks the party will come up against tonight for my game. This paragraph, from the DM Basic rules is worded slightly wrong, I think: By the wording, you multiply the xp of the entire encounter according to how many creatures are in the entire...

Magic and monsters!

So GenCon has a cool thing going across the social medias called RPGaDay, where people post the answer to a different question every day of the month. So I thought that would be a cool thing to do here, as well. So to start, something no one has ever started a thread about before, What was...

So, even though I couldn't find it in the site rules, I always thought posting links to and talking about illegally downloaded content was verboten here. So I'm not too sure why multiple threads concerning a certain leaked document in the D&D/PF forum are kosher. Did this rule change during my...

The Ambush at Sheridan Springs, a blog post by Jon Peterson (author of Playing at the World - excellent book, btw). Very interesting. A lot details on the rise and fall of EGG with TSR.

http://www.themarysue.com/sexuality-and-gender-diversity-dungeons-and-dragons-next/ That's pretty cool. The art we've been seeing is great and the diversity is nice.

One thing that I found odd that the Basic rules are silent on is retrying a skill check. By default, in my games, if an action is a) not under some sort of time constraints, b) not subject to consequences any worse than, "it doesn't work/happen" when it fails, then it's assumed the PC can...

Frog God Games made the first 3rd party d20 adventure, The Wizard's Amulet, back in 2000. Now they recreated it for 5e for free: http://froggodgames.org/5th-edition

http://media.wizards.com/downloads/dnd/DnDBasicRules.pdf

There's a kickstarter for that. I guess he's the orc...

Time for my wallet to hate me. Crusaders Kings II and Total War: Shogun II both 75% off...I was all happy playing Civ V: Gods and Kings and Endless Space, thank you very much.

In some of the newer retroclones (DCC RPG and 13th Age, in particular), PC level only rises to 10. This seems like a good idea to me. I like the idea of a gained level being something you've fought for and won, not something you're entitled to every few sessions. Less levels gained makes...

Advice on how to be a good playtester and where the playtest is going from here: The Tome Show D&D Next Playtesting Advice (Tome 197)

The Id DM has an interview with Monte Cook up. Interesting read. One thing he mentioned in particular raised an eyebrow: This makes some sense. Is the openness of the playtest a bad thing? Does the good of getting many more voices, and having those voices speak openly about the upcoming...

...yeah, but this wasn't Caves of Chaos. Having run KotB more times than I can count on my fingers (yes, I still have all my fingers), I thought trying something different would be better. I has going to go with something I made myself, but someone in another thread last week mentioned B10...

I like the mechanic, but not the name. From playtest reports, it sounds like quiet people aren't left behind the noisy people, but "advantage" implies that roleplaying gives you an advantage over those who don't, even though those who don't can get a bonus from the mechanics. I'm at a loss as...