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So Pendragon 6th edition has made it into the top most anticipated new games of the year for the third time in a row. And apparently, this year it's actually coming out. Pendragon has always been one of the games I knew existed and sounded pretty interesting and fun, but which never turned into...

With lots of people tinkering with their own fantasy heartbreaker systems right now, I started putting together a version of the Basic/Expert rules with all my house rules. And while I'm at it, I'm completely replacing all the values in the character class tables with math that makes sense to...

I think the very first thing to think about when creating a campaign setting is what you intend to happen and appear in adventures. Scenes, situations, and encounters that could happen during adventures and a certain style or feel you want to evoke with them. Then you can start thinking about...

Screw it, I'm gonna do it! I have so many house rules for B/X already, might just as well replace the other parts that "I would have done differently if I designed it", and put it all into a single tidied up document. I think I should be able to make it look as professional as Basic Fantasy...

Oh, a videogame... I was really confused how any adventure could sell to a million GMs.

It's a criticism that is both correct but also meaningless. If you have a campaign that is nothing but 5 room dungeons, then of course the formula will get very disappointing very quickly. You either want to have plenty of stuff that isn't dungeons at all, or have several dungeons that aren't...

I occasionally have custom classes or creatures on my website.

There is an SRD? I wasn't able to find one, or an indication that one exists.

"You are overthinking it" was always the "Well, I don't see an issue" argument. I'm really not asking for much. Name it anything. Just not orc. It's not even an established product name yet. It's still only a plan for something that is meant to bring lots of people together in a shared space...

But wasn't trying hard the whole premise to begin with?

I tried finding the existing license for Year Zero a few weeks back, and I really couldn't figure out what exactly they are giving permission to do.

I get it. It's a bit of a pun. It's cute. And they needed to announce something quickly as things were rapidly in motion. But I think ORC is probably the worst name for any kind of banner to unite medium and small RPG content creators under. Some people really don't care about it. Other people...

Publicly traded companies and art are not compatible. They are a vehicle for people to park their money and watch it multiply. If it would multiply more when parked in another company, they sell of their stocks and buy another company. The only job management has to do is to make sure is that...

Oooff, Mel Brooks is 96. If you want this made, now is the time.

It personally bothers me that the stock image does not have the length of the arrows correspond to the wavelength of the different colors. Such a missed opportunity. One of the things they have not done yet is to make any kind of statement to assure customers that the bad thing they are rumored...

Of course not. I ditched 5th edition after one campaign and now only run Basic/Expert. Nothing wrong with non-WotC D&D.

So far, the only think from WotC appears to be a twitter post saying that they will make clarifications on the situation at some point in the future. Why they have done nothing to attempt damage control if their brand is burning down because of false rumors has everyone puzzled for the last...

Yeah, but isn't all of that a straight up case of pre-written, scripted experience? Not saying it's not introducing roleplaying, but it's not quite an example of what I was talking about.

I think the Basic and Expert rules are actually the best RPG ever written. And that's from someone who didn't really know what they are until 6 years ago. There's plenty of weird quirks that could have been a lot better, but it was still in the first decade of RPGs being a thing and it had to...

Years back I wrote a number articles combing all kinds of RPG monster books for interesting critters. I also quickly started a counter for super generic and repetitive critters. From what I remember "variant ghoul" got the highest count, followed by "skeleton in a robe", "demon dog", and "evil...