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TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE! Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam! Wait, no, that's not it. ....Today is a good day to revisit an old topic, because I...

I agree but...... 1: my math/physics skills improved a lot by applying them to D&D. It gave a young kid "real" world applications to a...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #93 in January 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features world...

A while back I posted a thread on "What does it take for an RPG to die?". Now I want to flip the question. What does a "successful" RPG...

Oh! and there is a kickstarter. LOL. I didn't know that the signup page was live...

Wandering monsters aren't the only beings you might encounter in a dungeon; NPC adventurers can be helpful too (even unintentionally)...

I think this neglects the fundamental maneuvers that are rolled into mass combat and are considered to obvious as to not need...

The longer the campaign, the more likely PCs become military strategists. Here’s the basics. Picture by RGodforest - Own work, CC...

This issue Ian Livingstone wonders if anyone is really paying attention to their character’s alignment. Can a pack of murder hobos...

I'd argue that the last one was a trailer, too. But they say it's a teaser. So I proclaim this a teapot, since we're just randomly using...

I still remember how I discovered RM. A school friend I'd played D&D with called me up out of the blue and told me all about this...

More sourcebooks like Eberron Rising from the Last War and Ravnica. A bigger focus on campaign material instead of larger adventure...

More anthology one-shot collections like Candlekeep Mysteries or Keys from the Golden Vault. Not updates of old adventures, but new...

Manuel of the Planes' Manual of the Multiverse

Oh, yeah. In the 1e UA, there was a cantrip called firefinger that had the following in its description: "the caster speaks a word of...