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I basically did this in my campaign, my players hit level 10 in 5e and I said "FYI we probably wont be going to level 11 for a few real life months because I gotta homebrew some mechanics to make the other half of this campaign challenging, so you're going to be treading water for a bit". Since...

Exquisite Corpse is a pen-and-paper game that involves no reading or text that well predates Dungeons and Dragons. And before you get mad at me; if pedantry isn't welcomed in an online forum for discussing tabletop roleplaying games, then we as a society are lost.

There's a reason we call BECMI "BECMI". It incorporated the power curve into gameplay and mechanics to a degree that "advanced" D&D has failed to do. The "I" in BECMI tells you how to become a god, basically, and incorporated that into the world and gameplay of Mystara. Contemporary "advanced"...

One of my players had the brilliant idea to kill Strahd by casting Simulacrum on Ireena but the snow used in the spell is all frozen holy water, so when Strahd bites into her he's just sucking holy water and dies. We spent a while wondering if we would need to toss on Nystul's Magic Aura too.

Less so for visual art, I've been trying to teach an LLM to be a DM and it's honestly not as bad as it could be, but sometimes it turns out something as hilarious as this:

After the spellplague all of the escorts on Faerun got a RTO order and could only give handies in the festhalls, otherwise their bosses would lose out on their real estate investments

I love it, but running it at least somewhat close to how it's intended by either WotC or Mr. Baker requires pulling from a lot of tropes that may have been familiar to 30something gen Xers in the early 2000s, but with another 20 years of development of media and culture I feel its inspirations...

As a New Yorker, every city needs a New Jersey; a designated "other" who represents the antithesis of their urban culture.

If we're going to be doing licensed D&D beyond MTG, I'd like to start with brands Hasbro already has; give me Transformers!

Part of this may be that NYC is particularly a tough market to run a game store in, but I've been trying to teach my mom to play D&D and wanted to see if there were any events with the new box set. Ever FLGS I called across three boroughs of the city, irrespective of whether or not they were in...

IIRC you can mass produce small metal balls without industrialization; the process was used for musket balls in the 18th century. You'd just take a bunch of molten lead to the top of a tall tower and drop it through a sieve so it'd form spherical shapes as it fell and cooled. Shot tower -...

I can't be the only one who pronounces his name like "Pasta Fagiole" can I?

A long-running TV show and a long-running campaign are very similar. After a while you do run out of all the plots you could potentially tell with all of the storytelling building blocks that you have available. After a while, long-running TV shows tend to get a little wacky, and they tend to...

I'm not going to talk about game design. I'm going to talk about culture. Children's media started taking off heavily in the 1980s with many toylines getting animated tie in TV shows and movies. The linkage of the animated medium and the toy became solidified in the early part of the decade...

The hollow warden ranger gets phantom steed and I was playing around with some neat abuses of that spell, but frankly find steed would be more fitting.

Rangers would be unnecessary in a low magic setting because the only threats to civilization in the wilderness would be mundane or close enough to mundane to kill with a mundane sword.

Unless we're talking about a setting like Dark Sun where there are downsides to casting spells, or Forgotten Realms where the ability to do magic is only bestowed on a select few; that is a question worth asking.

That depends on what is being fought. You don't need magic to kill a human. You might need magic to kill a dragon: I'd say in most D&D games any fighter killing a dragon has some degree of magic, even if it doesn't come from class features.