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I'm of the possibly unreasonable opinion that books and rules do not break up friendships... people do. [/COLOR]

If you have any interest in the history of D&D, you have to be aware of Jon Peterson's excellent work. He's got a new article up on Medium called The Ambush at Sheridan Springs, and it recounts, as closely as possible, just how Gary Gygax effectively got kicked out of his own company in 1985.

Looks like someone just burned a couple hundred dollars in books. So... guess they really showed 'em, huh?

Well if you're not qualified, no one is!

Well, you could start by asking nicely. But yeah, in terms of leverage, walking out is about all you got.

I don't think that the situation you describe of every character design choice being equal is something that crops up in very many RPGs. Even RPGs that emphasize 'balance' generally acknowledge that different types of characters are going to do different things. If you are playing a computer...

Dayum, that guitar, er, lute in the art is serious badass!!!

OK. I'm an eleven-year-old who thinks that I would really enjoy playing D&D and is dead set on getting my hands on it. I don't have much money. Do I a) save up for the starter set in a few weeks or b) download the FREE basic PDF and a dice rolling app NOW? Yeah, the basic PDF isn't really...

I think there's a bunch of assumptions being made here. First of all, do 11 year olds really buy things this way anymore? I know when we were kids you had to hoard your hard-earned allowance for months to get something like this. But these days kids are begging their parents to buy them XBoxes...

From the blog post: The takeaway here is not that beginners want a more expensive starter box, but that they expect that everything they need to play the game actually be in the box. And yeah, it's hard to fault them for that. A second takeaway is that, as the saying goes, "you only get one...

I think you have to differentiate between the brand and the game. 'Dungeons & Dragons' will probably always be THE thing people think about when they think of role-playing games. But to amateurs, Pathfinder is D&D. So is 13th Age. So are various OSR clones. If I were to introduce a bunch of...

Wow, new 13th Age releases are flooding in. You can now pre-order the first level adventure Shadows of Eldolan, which includes a town to explore with its own mage school and some dark problems. Very cool art! (behind-the-scenes blog post about it here) And for those munchkins also known as...

Will there be a cruelty free option where I can use faux feathers or something??

I think the era of a single, dominant game is over. Official versions of D&D will still be big and important, but they will have to share the pie with other stuff like Pathfinder. People simply have so many excellent choices for what to play nowadays that I don't see one single game having a...

OK, this looks cool and all, but does MY sorcerer have to wear a yellow feather boa or can I reflavor? ;)

I really liked the Whispering Prophets. Super creepy and flavorful, just the way I like my monsters. Are they an original creation?

Lately I've noticed a trend where every time there's some weird monster I haven't heard of, it's from Greyhawk.

I learned something today. Thank you. B-)