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Some of these comic publishers are very tiny -- not significantly larger than many small RPG companies. Losing a bunch of inventory and...

I remember this one! Both because of the cover and the Gygax Ranger article. I liked rangers, but his rules were painful. I recall the...

While 5e might have it that way by RAW, 5e rules are far from perfect and this is a good example. Picking a lock really shouldn't be...

Why would it happen on success or failure? I talked about a "diegetic reason" - that is, a reason that comes from the shared fiction...

I don't know if your RPGing involves knowledge checks or not. If it does, then presumably one upshot of a successful knowledge check is...

WPN stores (like mine) do. I have it in my hands right now!

I wasn't talking about restaurant or hotel or theatre reservations. I was talking about establishing fiction in a RPG. Forgetting to...

Brevity in writing has never been my strong suit. You should see how much I cut from my overviews! 🥵

Yes, I usually allow myself just one paragraph of about 100 words per article. It's by no means a deep dive! Like you, I enjoyed dipping...

See this is the kind of thing I have come to expect (in my own games) to come up quite a bit during play. The idea that a player would...

So, stuff that has not been established (if a cook is around close by) can neither be diegetic or not. The characters making noise...

That makes sense to me, same in Pittsburgh. . . your body needs. . . well, at least my body needs, to acclimate to the cold each year.

Here in NH the classic is 40F in October or Nov = shivering and bundled. 40F in March = shirts off and hollering!

My pleasure! I kind of fell off working on this series (the last one I did was Dragon #112, and #113 is in-progress) but there are other...

Hey, thank you for publishing your take on this issue. I like a lot of what MT Black writes, but sometimes their coverage feels a...