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Konvikt: Inch Toward Daylight is a fairly massive and epic game project I am working on with vague hopes of bringing it to Kickstarter sometime in 2020. It will use the D&D 5E SRD and will be, broadly speaking, kind of sort of quasi-compatible with most D&D 5E content. All of those qualifiers...

I find it vaguely insulting that people thought that this was necessary? But I guess there must be a helluva lot of really, really bad DMs and players out there, generating all of these nightmare stories. So maybe it was necessary. Then again my feelings overall on "the X Card and friends" are...

Oh you motherflumpher....oh no you DI'INT just go there. You DID NOT just make that pun. Gods damn you! Yeah, some pushback along with SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS (more accurately I think tens of thousands of dollars?). : P The demand for "more is more" style design is quite clear and present...

As part of my "D&D Outside The Box" ongoing...idk what to call it? "Column"? Whatever, it's a thing I do sometimes on my blog. And when I do it, I stat things for D&D that are, you know, "outside the box", things you wouldn't necessarily expect to encounter in the high fantasy milieu of D&D but...

This is an excellent rule 0 and I'm proud of WotC for putting it in 5E. In practice, I imagine most tables play in a way more consistent with calling for rolls if "ANY OF" those three things are true. That has been my experience. (And there are still plenty of GMs making the rookie mistake of...

So, I think there are a few too many sub-classes in what I think of the core D&D rules (which to me consist of the three core rulebooks plus the trilogy of Mordenkainen's, Volo's, and Xanathar's). Namely, I think that there are few places where subclasses feel very redundant in the face of...

So, one of my very favorite features of my favorite RPG to come out in the last few years (Delta Green) was automatic success or failure. If a character has Biology 80%, he is going to automatically succeed at knowing virtually anything about biology that is relevant to the moment. If a...

Me and the entire table of PCs all read that exact same paragraph describing the Sneak Attack feature on page 96 when we were seeing if the Tiefling Fighter 1/Rogue 9 could sneak attack with his bastard sword of life stealing, and not a one of us caught that last sentence of the first paragraph...

This, to a degree. The word "ethnicity" is also a word that looks too modern to put in the game. "Races" in D&D are things like dwarf, orc, goblin, and elf. Gygax's early modules referred to non-human creatures like bugbears and gnolls as "humanoids". I prefer the term "demihuman", at least in a...

I can't find that in the rules. Correction: I couldn't find that in the rules until now. Surprising how easy it always is to miss the last sentence in a paragraph. Edit: Random forum question. Is giving XP not a thing anymore? I wanted to give Kinematics XP for correcting me, butdont' see any...

Strongly disagree. In a memey sense I'd be all like: "Fixed that for you." But that'd be kinda rude, so, I went with the first approach of "strongly disagree". You're describing what I find--as a professional game designer, and being broke and penniless, desperately seeking any crap job I can...

I wouldn't say it's crazy per se but I would say rogues, generally speaking, don't need Extra Attack to be balanced versus the classes you listed. Expertise is dope, reliable talent is dope, evasion is dope, uncanny dodge is dope, most rogue archetype abilities are pretty solid. That said, it...

First off, I have to note that this Kickstarter is not directly raising funds for charity as Kickstarter doesn't allow that. However 50% of sales revenue during the first month the game is out, and 20% of sales revenue in perpetuity thereafter, will be dedicated to the United States Holocaust...

I do have the most incurable potty mouth of anyone I've ever met, so if I do slip again please know it's not me defying Morrus, just like I said, a slip. But I'll try to avoid any slips. (LOL after saying that I dropped an f bomb in this very post but I caught it and went back and edited it...

My apologies. I had grown reliant upon the substitution filter and thought the relevant part of the word would become smiley faces, like they did on the old forums. That said it is pretty hard to discuss anything related to the musical The Book of Mormon in a way that is swear free or kid...

If Wizards really wanted to be litigious about this kind of thing, I feel like they would have sued Paizo lonnnng and hard when Pathfinder became a thing which is a thing that didn't happen (that I know of). No matter how the 3.X OGL was written, Pathfinder ripped off every single aspect of D&D...

I dunno, to me, they still look pretty Asian, going right up through the illustration on page 113 of the 5th Edition Monster Manual. I think it's mainly the whiskers that does it for me.

Turgenev, you are the best and this is the best and THANK YOU! I wish my life allowed me to spend enough time gaming that I could use even 25% of these amazing maps, but I greatly prefer having them and not needing them to the alternative. Huzzah!

I strongly second the recommendation of On Writing, it is easily the most helpful book on the topic that I've ever read. I don't think that I'd say that I do research--specifically market research, which is the kind of research you're talking about--as such. While I'm not tied in all that...