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Those pencils might work as presents for that Goth in your life. Could be used in game by the town sage as part of a 'stick casting' fortune telling. A few of the things printed on them have a magic 8 ball feel. The dice tower kind of has some Steampunk vibe.

Help friend build daughter's shed.

What? The party always has to win? Then where is the risk? Sometimes crap happens. You can't always take the fork to the east. Sometimes, circumstances dictate that you are stuck taking the west fork. Or dying. Your choice. If the GM has screwed up and let in too many magic items(the...

That may stay true unless the party discovers that the Guild Master for the Thieves is twice the party's level and her minions are more then a match for the party's puny abilities. Way too many players operate in the belief that their characters are the most powerful force in the area...

That was a period of time when I wasn't paying much attention to RPG things for a lot of reasons. When I did a quick Wiki check on JG, the entry stopped well before the statements in question were made(which is kind of interesting in its own right. Entries are often updated almost to the most...

The events everyone seems worried about happened in 2020, five years ago. Have the folks at Judges Guild that made/committed those comments/acts continued making them or was it a one and done? If it was a one and done, how long a sentence do they have to serve before it is long enough? From...

One classic way to remove items from characters is thieves. An item worth 15,000 gold is going to be a target. Many may fail but eventually, one lucky/well prepared thief will succeed. Characters have to sleep sometime. Most magic defenses have counter magic to defeat. With many systems now...

Was never very good at solving Rubic's cube(*). But I am getting some Evil ideas about a Cubic Gate themed puzzle cube. With far more the 6 possible destinations. Party searches desk, finds cube. GM hands a player a Rubic type cube with a bunch of lines on each side. If the player starts...

No, but I do have the DVDs needed to do the research. As for the Beastmaster RPG concept, IMO the IP would be better served as a set of well developed Character Supplements for existing RPG systems. Want to play an official Beastmaster in your 5e game? Or Pathfinder? Or GURPS? Or ...? We...

I have generally found the large tomes of magic items to be of limited use. That Massive +4 Bastard Sword of Dragon Cleaving probably won't help your 2nd level Bard nor will the +1 Cold Iron toothpick of fly stabbing be of much use to your 18th level Fighter type. Hopefully the expanded...

A discussion of the pro/cons of creating Yet Another Game System vs creating a supplement for an existing game system. Type of publishing: PDF, hard back, soft back, Print on Demand, etc. plus estimated costs, requirements and such for each option. Resources for avoiding copyright/trademark...

Typically overlooked is the value locked up in a Walmart type store of magic items. Well beyond the means of most people or organizations to afford. And as mentioned, a crime target. In a world where street thieves are willing to risk life and limb for a few silver or a chance at a gold...

Initially, not much would change. All books already purchased would continue to exist. Most groups that run D&D have a decent backlog of stuff already purchased to keep things going for months if not years. New players could download copies of the recently released SRD 5.2 or purchase a...

The game world matters a lot in ability balance. A world where a Powerful wizard is one who can light a candle from across a tavern room just by pointing a finger will have a different ability balance then one where a Weak wizard is one who can blast a tavern room to bits just by pointing a...

Wizards and Monks are terrible characters because they don't know about armor? My take is Beastmaster shows that Nudity as Armor can work for males as well as females. 2nd the thought on Krull.

The risks of critters in melee has already be mentioned but there are a fair number of single target spells that would spell instant doom for a Beastmaster's animal companions. Magic Missile being a classic. "Every missile targeted at ferret #1." Or early on, a Sleep spell could wipe out much...

If one does a bit of exploring on the vendor's Amazon store, you will find that tower for sale. The green blobs are good enough to set the scene. Will you win a place in "The Tremendous Tome of Epic Dungeons Vol II"? Probably not. But you won't spend the entire week setting up a tower...

Could be a way for a band of adventurers who know that the time for adventuring is getting short to setup a way to provide for kids/the next band of youngsters that might take up the next quest.

I think the reason early D&D used Euro-centric middle ages for the settings was the early customer base was primarily United States Americans. To US Americans, middle ages Europe IS largely fantasy. It has things like Kings, Queens and the whole royal entourage complete with castles and such...

I bought hundreds on the secondary market. Many were 10 cents per so I would order $1 worth. Snagged several of the larger ones like the Bullete or Red T-Rex for less then $5 per. My group at the time also made a couple of group buys of current issue boxes and then did some cross table...