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When I start reading this article, things are amiss when I read: Agricultural Integrity Tactical Empowerment Disintegration I might...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Now that my weekly Dungeons & Dragons game is open to the public, the question of how accessible it is to...

Crossbows & Catapults with actual cannonballs instead of discs, but fundamentally similar. Made for 28mm awesome terrain, which I...

Same. I bought almost all the adventures we played for AD&D at this ridiculously low price. I'd just buy everything (Because for a buck...

Giamatti cancelled last minute due to...waves vaguely at U.S. The guests really are the highlight. Pretty amazing talent coming in, I...

So glad you're back Darryl and so, so sorry to hear this. All my love to you and your family.

The Gateway to the Capital Despite being frequent con-goers on the East Coast, we'd never heard of Awesome Con. It's likely due to...

I do try to make it fun in the sense that the "fast" character wants to feel fast. Sometimes they roll low. But then if they tie with a...

To be clear I don't mean the players don't know their initiative. I mean, keeping track of monster initiative plus the players when the...

OMG yes. My tables crest 7+ players. Rolling initiative each round would be one more roll; the odds of me keeping track of everyone's...

Becomes more important at 3rd level + in 2024 D&D because they've started making initiative matter in class-related ways. Two examples...

Roll off, and then move whoever loses to one count lower (sometimes, this turns into a chain reaction so we have to make a judgement...

Managing a table of ten players is less like storytelling and more like air traffic control. In the heat of my weekly library sessions...