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I have never found tracking the cost for items costing so little to be worth the effort in any game beyond level 1 characters. By the...

Unearthed Arcana had a lot of great ideas, and with most of the book being Open Game Content, had so many opportunities to alter the...

Yeah, I still love 3X. In my experience, every problem that people talk about with it tends to be true. But also every problem that...

The point of starting with the bare minimum and then layering rules on top isn't to remove things we consider valuble. It's to find out...

See, it's hot takes like this one why I put zero faith in the D&D Community for playtesting anything. Even a rudimentary reading of the...

D&D, as part of it's DIY spirit, is full of amateurs thinking they understand the game better than the professionals. I've been looking...

Are you kidding? The "community" can't agree on a gosh-darned thing. There would be zero things the "community" could assist with that...

I find it hard to believe that texts that give you magic powers and/or drive you insane would be freely available via google search...

The latest instalment of the Fifth Frontier War is now here - and this time the Vargr are getting involved! You can grab your copy...

On the other hand, its really not that hard to state your preference without saying anything that isnt is not real RP, a game, or just...

I think this really needs to be said.

To be fair, that's often been how a lot of analysis was here. For example, there was a guy here who argued that games with...

But the matter of fact is that during the playtest a lot of old-school players complained about the Fighter having maneuvers and were...

I’m American, too. It won’t. In part because medical AIs still have the same characteristic flaws as nonspecialized others, namely...

I love that classic green death flavor.