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A lot of people seem to like the Warlock class mechanics a heck of a lot more than the class fantasy of actually playing a Warlock 🙁.

I should preface this by saying that I am a DM 99% of the time. As a DM, I'm not a fan of many of the changes in the 2024 edition: I...

I think they could have issued new printings with new art a la the black border 2E stuff and it would have been fine. The half edition...

1. Yes, ran it up to 9th level. 2. I didn’t, but this campaign started long before we had Bastion Rules. 3. I used neither. I used a...

We monsters and NPC cheat. It is what we do. You are not allowed to cheat. Because you are player. Non pLAYer Cheater. See it is in the...

CR works reasonably well for me as long as I take a look at the party and think about party strengths and weaknesses. No two parties...

I got suckered into playing PF2 for like 6 excruciating months. I have never had less fun with any gaming system, it actually sent me...

Noted occult expert Sam Wilson breaks it down:

I don’t hate her, I just find her very boring! Which is a great crime all on its own when it comes to companions, I suppose. I...

I'm developing a new Campaign Setting for Shadowdark called Shadow Quest. It is loosely based on the Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest in...

Perkins definitely wouldn't make that claim, but I really can't think of anyone who touches his track record specifically in terms of...

Reading Tondro's substack...he seems like a cool guy. Book of Many Things is a gem, weird and wonderful, one of the best things...

I am still from the school of DMing that holds I am the final arbiter of all rules. It doesn't matter to me at all if a player REALLY...

I didn't care for minions, even if I did understand what they were going for. But it just made no sense in the fiction. Take Grr, the...

NOW it makes sense! Thank you. I suppose next we’ll see “Drizzit D’Uarden has great jeans.”