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Setting Creation/World Building is fun - I loved the charts in the back of the DMG 1e and in my Traveller sets, and as a youth with more...

Like several posters already, I follow an iterative process - do enough top level prep to provide a ‘helicopter view’ of the campaign as...

For an RPG I think a good bit of that is necessary to be able to adapt to PC actions. Too much top down is going to push towards the...

Yes, meet in the middle, that is really where the game happens anyways. There is a lot of world building that is never seen, never meant...

I haven't finished the book yet, but a lot of time has passed for Tenar, so I don't find some of her new attitudes too surprising, based...

I can almost imagine ULG muttering, as she wrote it, "oh, you're mad there's not more Tenar? And that there's not enough serialization...

Since it came up, here’s Thomas Ligotti’s prose poem “Autumnal”:

Learn to Play Dungeons & Dragons Saturday, October 25 and the First Saturday of every month Calling all adult adventurers (Ages 18 and...

Reading the Hit Points Are a Great Mechanic thread, I'm struck by one of the simplest implications of the mechanism: you either have hit...

Here's the Monday Blues Map #185 map. This week's map is the first of a series - a small islet. Next week's map will be the fortress'...

Here's the October 3rd 2025 Friday Freebie map. This map is the first of four (maybe five) maps. Click to enlarge. Map Details...

Unfortunately, I am reading out of the doorstopper "all the Earthsea, and Charles Vess too" 1000+ page tome. That said, Tehanu is not...

I think I'll be done by late October, based on my slow pace through a relatively slim book. I don't think it's a coincidence he chose...