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Gaslighting is a form of manipulation. i.e. It's deliberate and most often done for nefarious purposes. Someone who genuinely remembers something differently is not gaslighting anyone. Memory can be a really funny thing. I remember having conversations with some friends of mine about some...

Pretty soon Chaosium is going to be able to join the AARP. Nice!

I used to work in a building that was 170 years old (at the time) and I had a lot of visitors who thought it was haunted. We used to let ghost hunting groups spend most of the night in the building and I'd babysit on occasion. I thought it was all a bit silly, but they treated the building...

IF there was a prize for best combination of username and avatar you would win.

I think of adventurers in real life and come up with folks like Guy Fawks, Hernando Cortez, and Blackbeard.

It's healthier so long as you don't drink the water flowing through the Ankh. Though, to be honest, the water doesn't so much flow as it oozes. While I kind of like alignment, it kind of breaks down when you take it out of context of the game it was originally designed for. That said, it's...

I tend to use adventure and scenario interchangeably when it comes to RPGs. An adventure is a self-contained series of encounters that may or may not be connected to other adventures to form a campaign. What happens in an adventure is largely dependent on the game you're playing. If you're...

I haven't seen a dwarf PC since I ran Curse of Strahd way back in 2016. I've seen a few halflings and gnomes. My stance on species in D&D is that I don't care for the most part. I might not want players to pick anything that flies or is size Tiny or something like that, but they can go...

Throughout most of my life, I've always been able to find the time for social activities. But bear in mind I never had kids, which makes things a bit less complicated for me. I was able to game in my 20s, but things became a lot easier for me in my mid-30s because a lot of people my age had...

The Mrs. and I watched it today and both of us found it enjoyable. There were some pretty solid gags throughout the movie which was funny and dumb just like the first one. The time we spent watching it was well spent. It's not going to change your life or anything, but it was worth watching.

Generally speaking, the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics is considered a fairly reliable source for inflation. According to the BLS, $60 in 2018 is the equivalent of $78 in 2025. Generally speaking, the BLS is considered a fairly reliable source for inflation. So the 2025 price tag of $70...

The way I see it, a campaign comes in two basic forms. The first type of campaign is a series of scenarios whose only real connection is the PCs running through them. This is basically how I grew up playing AD&D. Some modules were connected, like The Secret of Bone Hill and Assassins Knot...

As a DM, I have a similar issue. When I come up with a campaign, I typically have an end game in mind, and the vast majority of the scenarios I run are taking the group towards that end. I might have a few filler adventures now and then, but for the most part it's just full steam ahead. Once...

I've got a pretty stable gaming group and we've been meeting regularly for more than a decade now. We started a new D&D campaign in late January or early February at level 1 and the party is 8th level now. But I've been using milestone leveling instead of experience because I hate calculating...

Singer and mathematician Tom Lehrer died. Lehrer pretty much got out of music and went to teaching before I was born, but thanks to Dr. Demento I'm familiar with a lot of his songs. 97 is a good run...

Keep in mind here I was referring to the 2nd edition of Legend of the Five Rings and not AD&D. While I played some 1st edition AD&D, 2nd edition was the one I bought my own books for and played the most. If I had a preoccupation with realism I would complain about dragons, magic, and that...

I was astonished to read in the 2024 PHB or DMG the authors suggesting we should just start campaigns at level three, completely bypassing levels 1 and 2. I can only conclude that levels 1 and 2 are so boring even WotC thinks they should be skipped. I guess they lock things away at level 3 to...

I think 2nd edition was the first time I'd ever been disappointed in a new edition of a game I had previously enjoyed. I cannot remember exactly what it was about 2nd edition I didn't like because it's been so long. The last time I ran a campaign it was for 4th edition, which had some...

I wish I still had this. As I recall, it came with some pretty cool handouts the Keeper could fill out for props. Like dental and autopsy records.

Which edition of L5R do you refer? One of the things that impressed me about the 1st edition of the game was how well suited the rules were to the setting.