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People were thrilled to get remakes of B- and C-tier 1E adventures in Endless Staircase last year. (I love Beyond the Crystal Cave, but...

I find that D&D is so disconnected from everything I like that it's all but completely useless to me as a system. Classes and levels and...

I have tried to use real world castles in play and they just don't work well for what D&D is trying to do. I don't think realism in...

Because D&D favors specialization, average roll isn't a useful metric for determining if a set of ability scores are over or...

So, I have been running the GREAT PENDRAGON CAMPAIGN, currently at around session 50 or so. In about 7 sessions we will have the battle...

Some additional explanation of FFG Narrative Dice combat --- So in a certain sense, FFGND combat uses a fairly structured "subroutine"...

So I saw this a few days ago and have been thinking about how I could assist. Obviously I don't know you and your group personally, and...

Oh, uh, mine changed recently! For a long time my answer would have been Far Trek cause most gamers know enough about Star Trek to be...

I've run many RPGs with no prep. But for a pick-up game, I would go for In A Wicked Age. It bundles setting creation, character...

I'd probably go with Mausritter or Brindlewood Bay. Mausritter is super easy to make up fun scenarios on the fly and who doesn't want to...

Well yeah, my point being that before the invention of plains, trains and automobiles, travel into the wilderness may have been common...

Dang, I was kinda hoping for new D&D 5 backgrounds. Harvest King/Queen: You won your home town's or village's Harvest Festival peagant...

Hawkeye in the MCU had a pretty sweet home life. He went out and fought aliens and cyborgs all the time. Nothing wrong with "hero with...

I'm currently playing a young halfling who made friends with an elderly widow in her neighbourhood. When the old lady died, she left...

I can see that. But the player might have to have their PC do something or undergo something that explains what is happening: so being...