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Trying to set up this sort of thing can be interesting, but its also hazardous in that the stakes can seem consistently too high to the...

I easily blew past the largest category, as we play every other week for 7-8 hours. I'm not sure when in the last two decades I'd have...

Hmmm. There's definitely some system variance here--a game with a wide variety of broadly usable standard opposition will reduce the...

Its been out since March, but I don't think I heard of it myself until about June.

They're just going back to D&D's roots with adventures like Expedition to Barrier Peaks or the inclusion of a cowboy complete with six...

How do you feel about people who were not 5e players at all, but might have given a genuinely innovative change at least a look (this...

Finishing up "The Folded Sky", the third of Elizabeth Bear's Whitespace novels. I've found I've enjoyed them a lot more than I would...

If someone thought it was in the mirror, how would you even know about it? They'd just quietly reflect on the problem. As such, its...

I do have to note that how similar the BECMI games are to OD&D is a matter of perspective. Ask someone who started out in late '75 (and...

Dogs love routines they have amazing internal clocks. My boy Jax was grumpy if he didnt get his walk before noon in his twilight years.

Hopefully some of the 20-odd pages of new content in the revised rule book will promote the use of templates and provide examples.

Templates are, indeed, a good solution, but you need to almost present them as a default; if you just put it in as an optional tool...

Well in terms of that, if I wanted more grounded fantasy I had lot of (to my POV) better choices.

Its a fairly common feeling for one reason or another. I pulled the plug as a GM at level 14, not out of preference, but practicality.

It might be worthwhile to look up a game called Everyverse sometime; it takes a tact in its handling somewhat like that (rolling it back...