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I don't think anyone plays dwarfs. They're so 1998.

For me, the important thing is that a game has a strong narrative reason for have different species. For the most part, D&D fails at this. But since I don't really take any of the D&D settings very seriously, it's something I can live with. I long ago accepted the truth that it didn't matter...

There's got to me some axiom stating every conversation about TTRPGs in general will eventually lead to Dungeons & Dragons. I thought it was a good idea when they, D&D (yes, D&D is it's own creature created from the amalgamated thoughts of fans over the years) abandoned attribute penalties. A...

Al Capone funded soup kitchens and Pablo Escobar was considered a saint by many of the poor people in Colombia because he spent so much money helping them. Crime lords spending money helping people is just good business.

Bingo. The non-human species in most works of fiction are there because they serve some sort of narrative purpose and I feel as though that should be true for most RPG fantasy settings as well. What narrative purpose a halfling might serve in any given setting might vary of course. One nice...

I think there must be something more here. If culture was such a broad palette to work from, then what do we even need fantasy species for? If an elf raised in a farming community is pretty much the same as a human, orc, or dwarf raised under such conditions then what's the point of having an...

"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!" I'm certainly not one to quibble too much on definitions, but I'd have to say if you've been around for nearly 40 years in a hobby that's only 51 years old at this point, you're probably old school.

Then what are you doing playing a game with classes? You should be playing GURPS.

What game or games are we talking about here? GURPS, Savage Worlds, D&D, and other games treat species in their own way.

Kind of weird for a kid’s game, right?

Don't leave us in suspense. What did you think?

Now can we go over why Palladium likes to add ™ and © to words in so many of their publications?

No shade on them. I frequently have to ask questions like, "Roll whatever the equivalent of Streetwise is in this game."

For the most part, the people I game with tend to purchase their own book. At least the main book. There are exceptions of course. If it's a completely new game, then fewer people likely to purchase the book. They'll usually pick a book up if they like the game and realize we're likely to...

For me it always comes back to the random harlot table. No other edition of D&D has offered me the opportunity to run into a wealthy procuress, a sly pimp, or a brazen strumpet. That was back in the day when AD&D was not only entertaining but also educational. (I kid. Mostly.) By the time I...

So there we were, playing our 5th edition Greyhawk campaign, when we veer off topic and start chatting about fantasy movies from the 1980s. Player #5: I liked Conan the Destroyer better than Conan the Barbarian. Player #4: Agreed. Me: What the $#@%? Player #1: Yeah, what the $#@%...

They should harken back to Leisure Suit Larry. When you booted the game up, you were presented with questions no young person would know.

I think you should rename it the Antiquities Department and make Mr. Meints the Chief Antiquarian.

It's a problem for other famous homes. Despite so many years passing, the house in The Goonies still gets fans of the show trespassing and others brazenly knocking on the door asking to come inside. There was a house in New Mexico featured in Breaking Bad that had fans coming by to throw a...