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It's not so much the tricks that I care about - I'm going to use the same strategies and dirty tricks (plus some of my own devising)...

My take is to tell the player that if we're going to go down that route for them, the enemies are also going to be able to use it. I...

Oh, I do - it's the same person who tunes out the moment dialogue starts in an action movie and doesn't tune back in until the action...

After 40 years of them I'm more than used to Spike players. :) The way to both engage them and deal with them is to become a bit more...

As I've gotten older, I've learned not to underestimate the appeal of the social outside-the-game elements. That being said, completely...

Depends on the group. I mean, the rule book is 80-90% combat stuff. So, its not like folks are wrong to think its a significant part of...

Specifically the "El Banco del Random House" deal. In order to have lasted, they would've had to end that business practice. And seeing...

While I understand if a player enjoys combat the most, I do not understand the sort of person that just sits there waiting until combat...

To this day, I am still discovering TSR fiction and choose-your-own-adventure books I never have heard of before. Just reading that...

This is the fourth in a series of articles attempting to answer the question: How much D&D stuff is there anyway? So far, we’ve looked...

Nor here. I was running at a gaming cafe, and while they expected people to spend money on snacks, for every person that made sure to...

Tends to happen even sooner if you are a woman...

Paying to play at FLGS isnt something thats common here. I hear about it, but only tournament formats do it. RPGs are basically free...

I finished reading Chuck Tingle's Lucky Day. Though there certainly are throughlines with his Tinglers, it's very much a different...

That's something new in my experience - when the game I was running switched from free to charging for it, the people that didn't want...