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A friemd of mine at Uni ran a Fantasy HERO campaign in the Eshthar universe. He modeled all seven or eight types of magic pretty easily...

I recently re-read DL1 and was surprised at the sandbox elements (paired with a handful of timed events). Would that the rest of the...

OK, so it's all about the extremes then. My first thought when someone says "dramatic coherence" is not "strict adherence to a plot"...

Dramatic coherence is decadent? As is realism? What does this Grognardia character consider the peak of game design then? The funhouse...

The Morrissey covers are indeed fantastic. Love the detail he put in them. I never liked the DL modules from the moment I first saw...

I thought DL1 at least gave you a few meaningful choices along the way. DL2, by contrast, has one of the worst railroading sequences...

It's nicely done, but my sense of wonder is rather badly deflated by the presence of a map of our Earth (or its geographical lookalike)...

I equal parts love and hate DL1. As a kid I was blown away by the art and all the things mention above. I remember playing through it...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #91 in November 1984. It is 116 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features the...

Actually this is reply of a (former) PEG employee on a question on why the AP structure wasn't more "Savage World"-ified:

"The GM can fix it" is lazy game design.

Paizo Publishing may be bringing back the Runelords, the original villains of their Pathfinder campaign setting. On social media...

Well, the OP here is using "DM Fiat" as "the DM taking any action independent of the rules". A game rule can tell a GM what to do...

The only difference I’m seeing is that D&D does not have a Camp action and Torchbearer does. To me, you see that in fairly restrictive...

As always, this fails to consider limitations on what the GM might "narrate" that live outside any individual act of resolution. The...