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Why "Rogue" and not "Thief" or "Blaggard" or "Burglar" or "Crook" or "Assassin"? Why "Fighter" and not "Warrior" or "Soldier" or...

Yes. The soda fountain is the end of the pipe.

I've been playing RPGs for 3+ decades now, and I can't say I've ever had a favorite system. Indeed, more than that, if you told me that...

The thing is that my answer for favourite RPG has changed a lot since about 2010 because since about 2010 designers have got a lot...

I'm not against that. This sounds like the standard discourse around "balance" that has existed for decades. Squashing diversity of...

2e: Player's Option: Spells and Magic. Arabian Adventures. The Complete Book of Villains. 3e: Forgotten Realms Setting. Book of...

1e: Unearthed Arcana. I can hear howls and screams now, but it was a book that injected many new ideas into the game, even if all of...

I don't mean it condescendingly. I own a ton of 5E and run multiple campaigns of it. But it's also the center of the Venn diagram for a...

Then that means being disruptive or a "chaos gremlin" is part of your table's social contract. The bigger point is that "but that's...

The word "game" can be used in many ways, to describe lots of different human (and other animal) activities. In the context of RPGs...

The “but it’s what my character would do!” defense is offered up almost universally as a “stop judging / being angry at me folks” for...

Given a number of things you've said in the past, I have some question about that first clause.

It depends on the strength delta between the pre-buff and post-buff versions. I can certainly see a lot of players focusing on casting...

Before Darrington Press hired them, they had to each fight a young indie creator to the death in a steel cage match.

I think playing your character with authenticity is important but also creating a character that is suited to purpose for the sort of...