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D&D has been in a constant state of change since 1974.

I was salty because I thought 4th edition was bad. It was no Cyborg Commando, but once I played a few sessions I realized I wouldn't be buying the game. I think it's also a decision predicated on putting out a better product. For third edition, I can't help but think WotC recognized some of...

I'm certainly not the first person I know of to express positive opinions about CoC d20. Do I like it better than classic CoC? No. But the d20 version by Monte Cook and John Tynes is a pretty good book. I've certainly seen plenty of others who agree, even if, like me, they prefer classic.

Hell, while we're wishing....I demand a 5th edition adaptation of The Littles.

As someone who has PTSD from his experience with the great d20 glut of the early 21st century, I can still acknowledge there were a lot of surprisingly good adaptations. One of the best d20 products was Call of Cthulhu d20. If this was anyone's first introduction to CoC, they lucked out...

There are design issues exacerbated by some of my players' proclivities. I'm not one inclined to heavily modify any game I play and that's not going to change with D&D, so I'm just going to have to live with it and hope they reconsider when they make 6th edition. I'd like to see them do...

Tedious as opposed to being fun and exciting. The player characters in my current campaign have reached level five, and most combat encounters last 4-5 rounds. Keeping in mind all my players except one is using D&D Beyond off their phones instead of having a character sheet, here's how it...

I've run into this problem to. During my last East Texas University game, a PC wakes up to find an underaged girl dressed in odd clothing in hi dorm room (nothing untoward). The PC pretends to be asleep, and when she exited he got up, made sure his door was locked, and just went back to sleep...

My advice whenever we start a new campaign is to make characters who are interested in engaging with the premise of the campaign. If we're playing D&D, your character needs to be motivated to adventure. Maybe they just want treasure, maybe they're do gooders, or maybe they're trying to gain...

I remember there were some good OGL/d20 products including Spycraft, Mutants & Masterminds, and surprisingly Call of Cthulhu d20, plus a few others. But what I most strongly associate the OGL/d20 with is a glut of horrible, horrible products.

Last week my group started the classic module White Plume Mountain. For those of you unfamiliar, White Plume Mountain was originally released in 1979 and is essentially a fun house dungeon. i.e. A Wizard, Keraptis in this case, set up a dungeon with wacky traps and situations with the prize...

I don't mind having a 600 pound gorilla in the hobby space. Someone is going to be top dog, so why not WotC? I don't think it's healthy for so many companies to seemingly rely on 5th edition for their own success. When the OGL scandal hit, it really dawned on me just how dependent so many...

I agree. I was initially dismayed when a 2nd edition was announced, but it didn't take me long to come to the conclusion that enough time had passed that a new edition wasn't unreasonable. My initial feeling dismay was rooted in the fact that I had few opportunities to play the game, but it'd...

Not the first time in my life I've gotten actors confused!

Basil Exposition to a lot of people, but I'll always known him as Blackthorn from the Shogun miniseries.

Yeah. What makes it a tragedy is the character's actions are what leads to it. Let's take our pal Oedipus. The very reasonable actions he took to avoid his fate instead led him to fulfill his fate. And even then, during the play, several characters tell him to drop his investigation into the...

What you really need is a player willing to make in character decisions knowing as a player it's going to end poorly. i.e. You need someone willing to role play. Not every player is keen to embrace that badness happening to their character, but it's always nice when it happens.

That's the second angriest tree I've seen this week. Nice job.

I think it might be best to define tragedy to start with. Within the context of genre, a tragedy is a story that revolves around someone, usually the protagonist, suffering. Oedipus Rex is a classic tragedy by Sophocles about someone trying to escape their fate only wind up fulfilling it in...