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I still have my signed and numbered Limited Preview Edition Alternity Player's Handbook. I remember being disappointed when the publication version came out and they moved away from calling the companion volume the Rulesmaster's Guide, which was its name in my book. I also still have the...

The Grinch is asleep again. (DCC RPG)

It's been 6 damn weeks.

I've never used any kind of mentorship or training requirements in my games. For context, I started playing D&D with 2nd Edition in 1993 and started running my own games a few months later. But I look at D&D's class and level systems as descriptive, not prescriptive. That is, a character's...

Anybody is a fool to bet against Jim Cameron at this point. He is the Jim Steinman of filmmakers: his movies are grandiose and ridiculous and overblown and awesome. I'll be seeing this one in IMAX, tyvm.

For PoD it's 50% after the print cost is deducted. So say it costs $20 to manufacture the hardcopy. If you charge $50 for it you will make $15 off each copy sold: $50 cover price minus $20 manufacturing cost = $30, 50% of $30 is $15. Whereas you make the same amount off a PDF just by charging...

$50 for 208 pages now. The price increases are inevitable, but it's still sad to see.

My biggest rule is "Make Sure Everyone Is On The Same Page Before You Even Start." I think of this as having a Session -1, or maybe a bunch of them. I run idiosyncratic, personal weird fiction games with small groups, and that's not a style everyone is into. It's imperative to make sure that...

They've been around since 2nd Edition though. Even if they were Ravenloft baddies before, it makes sense to have them in the new DL book.

I'd like the designers to spend some time conceiving of some takes on the class that aren't focused around blasting, and add more options to accommodate those takes. I can't tell you how much I hate Eldritch Blast, and how I feel the Warlock's focus on it completely kneecaps what would...

Dungeon Crawl Classics is the only game you will ever need. It has the best (and most flexible) rules and the friendliest and most engaged publisher/creative team you will ever have the pleasure of meeting or interacting with.

The d30 is part of the regular dice chain in the Dungeon Crawl Classics game. The odds are against you ever needing to roll one (the normal action die is a regular d20, so to roll a d30 you'd need something to boost you up the chain by 2, from d20 to d24 to d30), but they are an official part of...

I came into D&D partly though the Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends, though I had no idea what D&D was or that it had anything to do with those books when I first read them. By the time I started playing it was the mid-90s and while I picked up whichever of those modules were at my FLGS nobody...

DCC does something similar, though it's a little broader. 3: -3 4-5: -2 6-8: -1 9-13: +0 14-15: +1 16-17: +2 18 +3 Of course, the abilities affect other things as well, such as # of spells known, highest spell level you can learn, etc. But I think it's a similar approach.

I expect there's very much a connection here. For example, I came into D&D in the 2e era and mostly from the Dragonlance novels, so lore is a big deal to me right off the bat. I've always been a fan of how game mechanics reinforce worldbuilding, too, and the Dragonlance setting, though its...

I've never played D&D - any edition - using minis or a grid, except in some AL games years ago. I've found that 5e lends itself to TotM play just fine. Better than 3.5 did, for sure. As others have mentioned, the key to TotM play is letting go of the tape measure. I prefer that approach myself...