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I find an interesting way to deal with level-drain or stat-drain is to tie it to locations or events/situations (something that should be especially easy to design in Ravenloft). So, don’t say that they’ve permanently lost that level or attribute point, say that they need to solve a particular...

Keeping 1st edition AD&D means keeping the original Gygax DMG, the greatest RPG book ever created. The answer was simple…

First album I bought: Michael Jackson, Bad Second album I bought: Weird Al, Even Worse

I truly miss the days when D&D wasn’t cool…

In actual play, we only ever used the Dragon Magazine version to do a half-elf bard (my brother played one), but I just voted #4 because I thought of a way for the multiclassing rule to work here. A half-elf fighter/thief could qualify for the level requirements and enter the bard class (which...

My first thought looking at this, after reading other notes on the book, is how easy it would be to use the Creating A Dark Domain rules to build a version of The Village from The Prisoner, a bucolic bureaucratic nightmare that chaotic murderhoboes can neither escape from nor seem to rile up any…

Blaine is a pain, and that’s the truth.

It makes sense. Production and especially shipping/distribution of toys and games is much more expensive right now. Meanwhile, WotC is a mix of publishing, printing of card stock, and selling of digital files. Even without taking into account the increased visibility of D&D et al during the...

While not exactly D&D, I always hold to the GMing advice of Palladium creator Kevin Siembieda (as he said to a friend who played in a game with him at a con): “If I don’t remember the rule, I just roll a die. If I roll high, it succeeds! If I roll low, it fails! If I roll in between — something...

Whoever creates this netbook wins the Interne.

After last year’s delve through the complete works of Aristotle, I’m continuing my survey of (the surviving works of) the classical Neoplatonists this year. Most of 2021 has been spent with Proclus, not surprisingly, but I’m maybe a thousand pages away from moving on from the Hellenistic pagan...

To remember how you described your off-the cuff NPCs for the next time they appear. Because your players somehow will remember perfectly and call you out on the shepherd changing accents.

Perennial satirical parliamentary candidate Lord Buckethead of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party!

No book will ever top the 1st edition AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide. Pure Gary straight into your veins — and the lack of any clear organization means you can effectively open to any random page and drink in of Gygax’s mad wisdom!

Now I want to eat some Black Forest cheesecake...

Rocks fall... ...everyone has an impromptu shelter to rest in!

“The Mist Beckons” Detailed weather rules? Good, the Exploration Pillar needed more support!

I see various folks saying “this generation doesn’t know much about Hammer Horror” and such. But why NOT remix the motifs of Hammer films, Poe stories, Universal monsters and the likes — Appendix N mainstays of previous editions — into current-generation stories? It opens up broad new avenues of...