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I've read over the first part of the sample content they provide, and find myself puzzled by one element of background. One of the motivations for a group of giants is their need to refine shipments of ore into ingots. But the specific material they're refining is "electrum ore", which isn't...

The question of how "easy" to make things, of course, leads straight back to the discussion of player types and campaign goals. If you're running a campaign that tends more towards the beer-and-pretzels style then, yes, you're probably not tracking encumbrance very tightly either, so...

I can see multiple different purposes. One simple but obvious purpose is to "keep score": if you keep getting wealthier, you must be "winning". Another purpose is to enable appropriate (but hopefully not excessive) purchases of consumables, whether those are arrows, holy water, potions of...

Until you have to make change for a smaller purchase.

Stock D&D cycles pretty quickly through the point where mundane equipment (masterwork arms and armor, etc.) can be viewed as worthwhile rewards. While it lasts, though, it's fun to have that lust for a suit of plate armor. I always enjoy discussions of non-tangible rewards: favors, alliances...

I bet Penn & Teller could pull it off. They're just that good.

It's not a thirty-pound puppet: it's a puppet with multiple thirty-pound pieces. Thirty pounds would be ridiculously light for a life-size beholder puppet.

Well, well, well.... "core rulebooks along with over 100 sourcebooks, setting books, rule sexpansions...."

Heh. I think I nominated that one last year....

"To impress the locals, they perform feats of magical or marital might." So you like to play that sort of game, do you? 🙃

While fighting space clowns in a recent Spelljammer campaign, we ran into a clown beholder. Instead of petrifying characters, it turned them into carnival plushes. Instead of casting web, it stuck PCs in place with gobs of cotton candy. It was terrifying. 🙃

Looking forward to installment #77!

"Unusual gamma rays burst at wavelengths on the visible color spectrum." Could we get writers who actually understand the words they're using?

Because it relies only on random dice rolls rather than on choices and strategy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_the_Goose

I think another category is needed. To me, “improvisation” implies an active, creative choice, in the moment — “Hm, I wonder what should be behind the door? Ah! The ogre guards!” — rather than simply acceptance of random results from an outside source — “What does a roll of 73 mean?”. Yes, the...

Where's #75? :.-(

I nominate Lords of the Middle Sea: The Roleplaying Game, in development by Jason Durall for Chaosium. https://www.chaosium.com/bloglords-of-the-middle-sea-update-hot-pursuit/

Is it on the 15th or the 16th? The headline and the story disagree.

I'm playing a giff paladin in a Spelljammer campaign, and just acquired second-level spells. A sturdy giff weighs, what, something like 900 pounds? So what kind of mount does his "Find Steed" summon?

When do we get #65?