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I love the way my friend used Death House to get us into a non-Ravenloft horror game. We were all kids who grew up in an orphanage together, including a brother and sister NPC. Some bullies said we wouldn't go spend the night in this infamous haunted house, the Wycker House. Since we weren't...

Well, first, I want to say congrats (no sarcasm) on apparently capturing the feel you wanted this second go-around. A friend and I had the discussion before about Barovia and horror games, and I feel too often character sheets are a disconnect where players feel safer than they should because...

I was running a game where it was eternal winter - Ymir got killed at Ragnarok, and his body plummeted between planes, before crashing on this world and creating an 'impact winter'. So, it became post-apocalyptic We used the original playtest for 5e artificer and one member of the party was an...

To be honest, this was my experience the one summer some friends and I broke out the ancient Civilization board game (either 1980 or 82 version) and decided we would play every night. Somehow, a summer full of it played every night - and cases upon cases of beer later - we were no closer to...

Speaking of making incredible saving throws... Back when Arby's used to run 5 for $5 (i'm old) -- my friend and I got some. I usually would eat mine plain. Decided I wanted some sauce on it. Opened the sandwich perfectly in the middle... to find some sheered bolt shavings/chunks in the...

I get what you're saying, but I believe the point that was being made was for the DMs who have to run AL out 'in the wild' For example, a local bar here had been running D&D brunches on Saturday, noon til 2, Adventurer's League. The whole point of AL and what they allowed/disallowed was so...

But, as we've discovered, there is still a truth there that applies, New Coke or New D&D. Certain people will buy it regardless, some people will absolutely reject any change, and some in the middle are indifferent. Both Coke and WotC are probably only concerned about this last group - the...

I think this is a very good post. In my opinion, it does depend on the game world and narrative you want modeled. During the creation of L5R originally, since they wanted to model Kurosawa and samurai films, there were no damage rolls. A katana was deadly enough that being cut was death. Of...

Right now, I'm trying to process if you're referencing the urban legend that New Coke was brought out solely so Coca-Cola could reformulate the older Coke, 'realize their mistake' and then release Coke Classic with the new sweetener, basically gaslighting everyone that the Coke Classic was...

Can you imagine the utter dumpster fire THAT idea would cause in the community? "See, they lied. OneD&D was always 6e and They Knew It"

I'm glad to see this shouted-out. As a long time L5R player (back from the beginning) I loved the whole nature of the debate between the Kakita school (the single-strike) and Mirumoto (dual-wield). I always love that Mirumoto's rebuttal to the question was 'Two hands. Two swords.'

A good article. One piece of advice I've found that I don't think got mentioned. You discussed different catergories of troops or unit members. I think one goal should also be, whether on the battlefield or dungeon, to create beneficial mismatches. An example from a Rolemaster game I'd...

As an outsider, I thought it was a test about current events, not a historical item. Kind of similiar to the trope in movies of 'Oh, we've got to hurry because this passcode changes in 7 minutes', the question was based on something that may not have made it out unless you were directly effected.

I believe they tried to frame that in terms of, no matter how crappy genetics were to you, you could become a town guard or a thief because those were 'unskilled'. Fighters and thieves were the Subway Sandwich Artists of D&D

I made the assumption that various sections of the ships are designed for evacuation in the sense of not having enough time or even power to use the transporters. Makes me think of school bus designs, with the back door for an emergency exit and the windows being able to be operated to use as...

I'm not sure where I had stumbled across, and it's possible I dreamed it up accidentally, but it seems to me that the question of weight of gear/money wasn't just weight but an abstraction of the BULK of the item in question. So, scale may not actually weigh what it's listed as, but the...

I agree. Some things Wizards/other gaming companies (since we seem to keep mentioning Wizards) can do: Keep working to improve material and get as many different eyes on the total material as possible, not just the sections they feel might toe a line. Be proactive policing their boards and...

I wonder if we will see that, given that many states in America seem to be going now for transparency about what an actual salary is. I know NY state pushed through something where they can no longer say a job pays 'between $35-70k'. But, for the same reason companies in America don't want...

I don't know if it's been said, but I feel comparing MMO in-game behaviors and consequences to what we're talking about about content creators harassment isn't equivalent. Blizzard or Square-Enix can absolutely lock down accounts in-game and on their boards. They can post 'that's not cool' on...

It feels a lot of people felt the same way about the LotR show on Amazon. Probably dropped in to check it out and saw it wasn't what they expected and checked out. About the Vox Machina show, I wonder how many people tuned out after/during episode one and feel it was jokey and Bad. I told a...