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I recently read through the 2nd Greyhawk box, and they do a great deal to explain the economy of the city. They discuss the city's role as a central trading hub, what goods go through the city, what raw materials are extracted from nearby mines, banking, and of course taxes.

I rolled up a ton of random characters and just about every single one would have been fun to play. One of my more memorable rolls ended up with a guy who had both the Steward and Knife skill at level 4 which I thought was an interesting skill combination. I only had one psychic but I rolled...

I think that might be it. I've never played Traveller in my life, I only just purchased it from Mongoose during COVID, and once I digested the rules I tried to figure out what kind of campaign I could run. It largely seemed dependent on what the PCs rolled up, which could be anything. Maybe...

I remember being pleasantly surprised by Rifts: Underseas and Rifts World Book: England. It's been more than thirty years, so I don't remember specifically why I thought they were good, I just remember the good vibes.

As a player, I don't like doing a lot of unnecessary bookkeeping, so I'll just let the DM know I'm spending 500 GP on accommodations while in this area. I'll live like a rockstar and when the gold runs out I'll spend some more. I do like how Conan handled wealth. You might end the last...

I don't take D&D very seriously at that includes the economy of whatever setting I'm running. My first 5th edition campaign was tongue-in-cheek, player characters went to adventurer school, majoring in Barbarian, Wizard, or maybe Cleric, and I told the players the prices in the PHB were...

In my Greyhawk campaign, this last month I told my players.i wasn’t going to bother with gold or other treasures aside from magic items or important items. At 8th level, they had more gold than they knew what to do with. D&D has a common feedback loop when it comes to adventuring. 1. Go...

It absolutely is a function of them not learning, but I think having so many moving parts is part of what leads them to not learning. It doesn’t help that they’re all playing the game using D&D Beyond for everything.

I've been running a 2024 campaign for almost nine months now and I still have players who don't know what their characters can do. Players who will ask me, "Do I get a bonus action?" The basic mechanics of D&D are fairly simple, but there's so many moving parts to keep track of during a combat...

I'm thinking the same is true of a complicated board game like Star Fleet Battles. The basic SFB game has about 400 pages of rules at this point (I think), filled to the brim with how players handle energy allocation, direct fire weapons, indirect fire weapons, movement, transporters, mines...

It's amazing to me how many books they produced for D&D over the years. I had a lot of AD&D books from the 2nd edition era including a several boxed sets, just about all the Complete Book series, most of the green historical campaign books, etc., etc., and it was all a drop in the bucket. Even...

That's a good looking demon. I've got a handful of D&L miniatures and I've been happy with all of them.

The long and the short of it is I've got to pare down my collection and perhaps change the focus of my projects. I first started painting miniatures many years ago to support my gaming endeavors. But the truth is that I spend far more time painting than I do gaming. In many cases, I'm...

In the words of Foghorn Leghorn, "It was, I say, it was a joke, son." I didn't play the game back then, but looking at all the books published for the game back in the 1980s, it looks like they had plenty of world building to me.

Yeah. I remember asking the question somewhere about how far in the past can the apocalypse be before you're no longer post apocalyptic? In the Fallout games, the apocalypse was more than 200 years ago. At some point you're no longer dealing with the apocalypse you're just dealing with life...

Hmmm.....I hear something lurking in the shadows. I'm going to go check it out. Oh, my God! IT'S GURPS!!!! Oh, boy! I thought I was a goner, but GURPS just handed me three six-sided die and wished me luck. It's odd, but I used to enjoy a lot of crunchy games when I was younger. Not just...