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I'd say torches have been irrelevant since 1E. Sure, you used torches and lanterns for a couple of levels -- and then the party cleric...

Nah. I have no particular opinion on the '24 fighter, but the 4e fighter is absolutely the high point of fighter design. It has a...

First of all,we should not take anything the Alexandrian writes particularly seriously. Second, asking players to fill in details...

Sure, but that's easier to do if you don't hand out magic items as lavishly as the 1E treasure tables do, and if you don't expect the...

Magic gear as a power add is fine. Magic everything is silly, and a major contributor to making magic feel uninteresting (especially if...

I've always thought "Fighters can use ANY weapon and ANY armor" was overrated because, let's be honest, in most 1E games you'd be...

The Pathfinder 2e playtest PDFs were free. They did print and sell a physical copy as well, but that was aimed more at collectors and...

And anyway, if we're playing by old school rules, all those humanoids in the Caves are inherently, irredeemably, monstrously evil. Why...

I’m extremely skeptical about this, because Mearls has been beating a similar drum since 2012, when he designed 5e and sold it on...

While I get what this article is going for, something about it doesn’t sit right. It frames the whole hobby as if D&D and its direct...

In my experience, it's more that allowing enemies to retreat invariably leads to them alerting the entire dungeon/castle/whatever and...

Well, the problem there is that PCs aren't shabby at making a retreat impossible for opposition in a lot of games either, and a lot of...

One of the things that complicates this is a lot of games have really poor rules for handling attempts to flee. The net effect of that...

Polaris (the one by Ben Lehman, not the French submarine game).