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While I only ever played AD&D 2E the one time, and it was a bit of a disaster, I have a lot of fond memories of reading the 2E stuff. I had gotten a gift subscription to Dragon Magazine for the last half of 1989 and the first half of 1990, and I would pick up the occasional copy of Dungeon...

This keeps coming up as a "no big deal" talking point for AI, but let me tell ya: this is a big concern in the world of engineering. We have a lot of meetings, and whoever controls the meeting notes controls the narrative. Let's say we have a design meeting, where we are discussing the...

That's not the problem we're seeing here. In these surveys, the problem was a handful of edition warriors who got the 4E survey closed after just 54 hours of voting. It was on track to having the most votes ever--it got hundreds of votes in that short time, and most of them were favorable--but...

...unless it's your job to convince people to trust them.

There has been quite an uptick in votes lately, so I updated the Edition Experience Survey Results. Check out how this edition compares to the others, in light of hundreds of new votes.

Updated survey results, October 2025: So there's been an increase in votes recently, especially in the AD&D 1E and AD&D 2E surveys. A significant increase, too--almost 300 more votes have come in, and in just the last few weeks. I figured it was time to update the survey results to reflect...

I've noticed that the marketing department where I work has stopped all mention of "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence" at the start of this quarter. This is very different from last quarter, when they were mentioning both in practically every paragraph of ad copy they could find. Suddenly, at...

Inspiration for next year's contest? I see we're still sitting at 38 total votes. Y'all doing okay out there?

B.A.R.D. Being A Ridiculous Duck Except I don't mean "duck."

I don't plan everything out, but I do plan a lot of stuff...I'll have an outline of main story points, names of important NPCs, and important clues I need to give to the players. And I'll have about a dozen different maps loaded up into Roll20--any of the locations described in my outline, plus...

Here's a little something to sip on while you vote in the Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest. Pumpkin Spiced White Russian 2 oz Cooper's Daughter pumpkin spice vodka 1 oz Kahlua 1 oz heavy cream Shake with ice, then strain into a cinnamon-sugar rimmed martini glass.

How dare you. I'll have you know that my IQ is... (opens Google, looks up 'highest possible IQ', scans the AI-generated result for a number) ...300.

When I first started playing D&D, just about every adventure was Pre-Apocalyptic--we were on a mission to save the world from a terrible fate. But now, Post-apocalyptic stories are in style...nearly every fantasy novel or movie now has themes of rebuilding, rebirth, renewal, and resistance...

It's a very human way of thinking: most of us are really good at seeing the way the world does work, but we still behave according to how we think the world should work.

I'd say that if the goal of the campaign is to stop a coming apocalypse, then it's "pre-apocalypse." I think that "no apocalypse" implies the world isn't going to end no matter what.

(Required Listening) I was reading through a bunch of threads over the weekend (writer's block, ugh), looking for inspiration for my next D&D campaign. I noticed that "the end of the world" is a very popular plot device: sometimes the heroes have to stop the end of the world, sometimes they...

I'm reminded of this gem from the D&D Memes Thread.