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19) Instead of puzzles with specific solutions, put the PCs in challenging situations with multiple elements they can toy around with and watch how they end up creating a puzzle themselves.

9) When players speculate about what might happen in the story, pay attention! They are inadvertently telling you what they enjoy seeing.

I once ran it in a similar manner. The dungeon's entrance(s) was in a haunted graveyard with ten open graves and a bell; every-time someone died, they woke up in one of the open graves and the bell rang once, slowly breaking apart each time and crumbling to dust at the 30th, basically giving the...

I love Tomb of Horrors, even if my regular DMing style is very different (I avoid putting situations in which the fate of PCs is out of their control entirely). I think it is one of those things you need to be fully aware what to expect before venturing forth. I've always understood the module...

Welcome, Michael! Enjoy your stay.

A fantastic find. Unknowingly, the ramifications of Leonard Pratt's ideas are so widespread today it's practically impossible to quantify how far they've travelled. The man deserves some serious acknowledgment.

4 out of 5 rating for Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide It is a short book, no doubts about it. Perhaps one might even say slightly overpriced considering the page number, although nothing scandalous. It's the only reason I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5. That said, the SCAG attempts -and I...

That's an excellent deal indeed. If I didn't have most of them, I'd most certainly buy it. Highly recommended!

I would love to see material on Planescape, Al'Qadim, Birthright, and Spelljammer. Doesn't even have to be too fancy; I'd be content with something on the lines of the SCAG, enough that it would let those of us with big libraries from the olden days quickly plug them into 5e, while at the same...

"Hand holds sword, sword kills people. Vorgok pleased with arrangement" "We're strong, we're brave, but more than anything, we're astoundingly impervious to common sense. Attack!"

Nooo! It's the raisins talking! Don't let them inside you!

It's a traditional Chilean Christmas cake, consisting thick sponge cake made with ginger, honey, crystallized fruit, nuts, almonds, and raisins, plus anything else people want to put in them. There are several varieties, my favourite being the one with marzipan and no raisins because, as...

My players are way too lazy to DM, so it's not a dilema I have to face very often. That said, I'm alright with a bit of fudging if it's used as a last retort. We like playing with hidden rolls, and I have fixed the results a few times in dire situations when, either because of poor planning...

Considering how ravenous we're for more intel on the other settings, these are some lofty news indeed!

I'll second Star Realms as an excellent 2-player game. It's very quick to play and easy to learn, with enough variety to allow for a good lot of strategies without causing analysis paralysis. Smallworld is a game that I love playing with any number of people, and it's simplicity makes it very...

Oh, apologies; it's a linguistic thing. Over here, we use the term "miel" (honey) to refer both to bee honey and syrup (even though the more precise term would be "jarabe" or "sirope", no one here uses those words for syrup). And since wine palm syrup is as commonplace as bee honey over here, we...

A personal favourite: -White bread -Crunchy peanut butter -Bee honey -Feather-sliced smoked ham -Baby leaf lettuce -Chanco cheese (buttery cheese) -Honey mustard

A 130 year old copy of "The Life and Facts of Estebanillo Gonzalez, Man of Good Humour", which I found among my great-great grandfather's books which I've recently inherited from my grandmother. The reading goes slowly, as the pages are very delicate. A really fun read. Apparently, historians...

I asked my cat, and this is what I got in reply: "ajkjhsfdfdlf,ñopñdñklmsf,mcaskjasdkhasdjhagfjkasghfsaias kajsdkjasd"

Link to the Petition A petition has been set up in Change.org to request the International Union for Applied Chemistry that the recently confirmed Element 117 be named "Octarine", in homage of the late Sir Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series. I have no idea if these things actually work...