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Stick to the Core Rules; ignore the splatbooks. This may already be accomplished by using Trailblazer.

My #1 recommendation is to start at level 1 and work your way up. It may feel like a bit of a slog, and some PC's may die. But it's...

After saying for years that I'm not going to publish a retro-clone, I've found myself starting to work on one. I'm going with a working...

I don't understand this emerging view that it is unreasonable for a RPG to set out principles for players and GMs. It's not a new...

At some point, some actions, images, words, etc. become so strongly associated with “evil” that using them in other contexts is going to...

I've always wondered about the tuning fork of the Plane Shift spell. I assume it's meant to evoke tuning to the specific frequency of...

Occasionally, we see threads pop up in 5e discussing spell components, and whether the components required for a spell (especially the...

When you're on the fringes like mid 40s, I find it usually comes down to how you were raised. Attentive and caring parents who might be...

It is strange that pretending to have interest in what someone else is talking about can be simultaneously polite and impolite, but it...

No Ive never ran into people finding my playing RPGs odd, at least that I can recall, and if they did they never said anything. I...

That works, too! Or...how about Morrus? "Morrus the Loris" has a rather nice ring to it! Johnathan

I'm going with a slow loris (Nycticebus spp.) that's had the Awaken spell cast on it by a high level druid associate of the ranger. I...

1st edition and 3rd edition Boot Hill are quite different games, from different era (1975 and 1990)...

Boot Hill 2e and 3e are both good games that I think hold up very well. I'm glad they're both POD now, too, because I sold a copy of 3e...

Image Courtesy of Pixabay Boot Hill - Wild West Role-Playing Game (Third Edition) is fifty years old counting from the first edition...