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I wrote these a few months back. Still pretty much apply. My campaigns are set up to be about exploring the world, not the characters. Adventures are expeditions by the party, not personal stories. Players are free to drop in and out of the campaign without disrupting the campaign too much. As...

Speaking of which, I think a simple practice that should make the game more fun without needing any rules changes is to really limit the number of magic items that only give a fixed passive bonus to stats. Ring of protection +1. Cloak of resistance +1. Gloves of Dexterity +2. A player could...

I like the Pathfinder skill points. (Or at least how I remember them.) One skill point gets you one rank in any skill you want. Maximum is 1 rank per character level. If a skill with any points in it is a class skill for any of your classes, you get a +3 bonus. No 4x skill points at 1st...

Okay. Kind of. Buuuut... As GM you still have to identify which parts are the one that you actually don't like. Because often the spot where you see the smoke coming out is not actually the spot where the friction happens. To improve the gameplay experience, we often have to address the cause...

Dungeon23 seems to have been quite a big success and popular with a good number of people. But making a dungeon room every day for a full year isn't for everyone's style of running campaigns, so some of us on Mastodon have come up with Lore24. Writing a short description of one thing that is...

That's exactly the thing that draw me back after all those years. I had an idea for a setting and campaign forming, and very quickly realized that 3rd edition has all the things I need, (Partly because many parts were inspired by memories of 3rd edition books.)

That argument always comes up. And did so back in the day all the time as well. "If you don't like it, why do you play it?" But to that my counterpoint has always been "Then what play instead?" If we make a retroclone that is just like 3rd edition, except for one third of the content, then...

The very first thing I would do to greatly improve the game and (mostly) everyone's experience with it immediately conflicts with the whole initial premise of taking the game as it actually is and working with that. Which is to lower the level cap from 20th level to 12th level. For the...

I've recently been going again through the old 3rd edition books Manual of the Planes, Expanded Psionics Handbook, and Lords of Madness looking for ideas for a campaign concept I am entertaining. There's a bunch of really interesting content in those books, and it occurred to me that I don't...

If they aim for a similar look, I'm sure it can be profitable as straight to video.

110 year old Batman would be an interesting series, though.

Technically Discord, because that's where I would post a note if for some reasons I won't be able to run the scheduled game. But it really is just that we have a regular time every week to play, and we're going to play with everyone who shows up.

Now that's ironic. So would probably having machine generated images in the book been as well.

I guess there's two different questions there. What makes 1st edition a compelling campaign setting, and what makes some FR fans prefer the 1st edition over others? All the way back 20 years ago, I had just gotten inti D&D and Forgotten Realms and wanted to get all the Forgotten Realms setting...

I very much applaud wanting to run Dark Sun. But are you sure you want to run 2nd edition? That one always seemed like the most daunting of any editions and retroclones.

I think new editions are very rarely about the game and almost always about the publisher.

I've been a huge fan of the Dungeon Exploration and Wilderness Exploration of the early D&D editions for a good while now. But I've never really been a fan of the core game mechanics of D&D, like how you make attack rolls, how you cast spells, and how characters advance by discrete levels within...