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There's NOTHING fantastical on the cover. It's a knight on a horse - it could be the cover of a book about Charlemange, the War of the...

Things I like: Point buy/Standard Array versus Rolling for Stats: I’m more appreciative of the level playing field rather than the mad...

Stayed up late because I just had to finish off Act 2 of Clair Obscur, and watch the opening of Act 3, and then had to stay up about a...

Evolutions I don't like: I never cared for "damage on a miss." Probably never will. I wish they hadn't moved away from monster...

Well yeah? It’s just a discussion.

I see the distinction, but I would say part of what draws me to TTRPGs is the story aspect - the fact that my play at the table is...

So if I understand correctly, you’re saying because story often means specific beats occurring, it can get in the way of the game or...

I think that RPGs occupy a middle ground between story and game because the two are intertwined. The story is emerging through play, but...

Wow, I had the exact same feeling playing Scum and Villany. I chalked it up more to our GM’s style of play. I don’t think he was...

I found FitD (via Scum and Villainy) to feel a little too much like a "writer's room" -- that is, when playing we (as a group) were...

More importantly...it's not like D&D invented the concept of humans with a connection to dragons. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern...

“ I was there, Gandalf…”

I would go so far as to say that most people who are discovering D&D now, their personal "appendix N" is full of things directly...

That was a really interesting, and for me, somewhat exasperating article/link. There was one comment in particular that struck me: He...

Wild repeated necromancy in this thread! Six years, then ten years, then five years!