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Training is one of the best ways to force characters to take some downtime - which they otherwise often would not - and interact with...

In theory, the original point was to "give PCs something to spend their money on" but as you pointed out it can easily have the reverse...

I think it depends on buying habits. For me it will utlimately be more expensive. When I play we generally only go up to around level...

What they're saying sounds sensible enough but I'm always gonna be skeptical until I see results.

Not the same amount, but the same type. Every book will have an Adventure Toolbox that contains the new items and spells and other...

As a history nerd in grad school I loved Katherine Kerr's articles. I remember this issue specifically for Gygax's recommendation of...

In case anyone wants to avoid them, I made a list of humor articles and what elements they introduced. I've converted some items to 5E...

I loved the joke articles. I did a conversion of the Quazar Dragon for 5E, linking it to Tony Caspar's Cosmic Dragon Breviary.

de Lint is always great, though I didn't get into him until later. The Bishop's Heir I really loved as a kid (found the ending...

As an addendum, it has only just clicked for me that Arthur Collins, who wrote the taxation article, is the same person as the "Rev...

Jon Peterson's Playing at the World makes it clear Gygax wasn't using Tolkien as a base when he started out, but Tolkien was massively...

I honestly never understood why Gygax was so adamant in downplaying Tolkien's influence on D&D. The level of influence seemed both very...

I saw the blog post prior to this article. Consensus here and elsewhere seems to be that this is a net positive, and I can't really...

Consider me corrected!

Sad to see the end of an era, little products are fun impulse purchases. But overall this change makes sense, since I’m not sure how...