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TTRPGs in 2025: DMing Tyranny of Dragons using the 5e.2024 rules. Characters are now 6th level after starting last October with character gen. Weekly on Thursday night Playing Curse of Strahd, my younger daughter (21) is DM using 5e.2014 rules. Characters are 8th level. Alternate Saturday...

Just wait for tabletop RPGs and boardgames to start appearing on gambling apps.

It is appalling just how political some people consider that suggestion to be.

That's immaterial here. There's no return of a ringwraith in Lothlorien. It's Gollum snuffling around the trees having picked up the Fellowship's trail in Moria.

Yeah, that was pretty typical. When my dad was a kid, he went to a one-room school in a rural township where the nearby farms were all on a party line. Everyone overheard the call reporting when his older sister (9 years older) had her first daughter and welcomed him to class by calling him...

At this point, he's already contended with the balrog - he just doesn't yet know what it is. It wasn't orcs or trolls that burst through the spell he was using to secure the door while his companions fled. That's why he's so tired. He's not really on the same level as the rest of the company -...

I think calling design "lazy" is a fairly lazy criticism. The critic is looking at something they thought needed more time and work than it got (or was able to get) and then jumping to a pejorative comment on the nature of the design - which naturally falls on the designers/developers themselves...

What makes love actually matter to the players? Well, it's a pretty decent movie. I mean, my wife likes it enough to watch it every Xmas season.

Early reports are that director/actor Rob Reiner and his wife have been found stabbed to death in their home. https://extratv.com/2025/12/14/rob-reiner-and-wife-of-36-years-michele-confirmed-dead-knife/

Well, that tenure was mercifully short. Weird.

The OTHER Jim Ward, the voice actor, has died. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jim-ward-dead-fairly-oddparents-ratchet-clank-1236448605/

As I see it, that doesn't make it not a trade-off. You like tactical play, you trade that as a significant focus in the game for an opportunity to improve the game for K's benefit when they're in the game. You defer tactical play to another group for play with K. Trade-off isn't a dirty word or...

Do you always get exactly what you want out of a game like that? Or do you sometimes ease off on some of your preferences because you know other players don't favor them the way you do? Do you ever come up with an idea but adjust it for someone else's sensibilities? That's the trade-off (or I'd...

I think it's highly likely to be the case. Sometimes you just need to have experience with the perspective on the other side of the GM's screen. Similarly, having some GM experience is going to enable someone to be a better player.

Sigh. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

Novelist Sophie Kinsella has died. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/10/madeleine-wickham-aka-shopaholic-novelist-sophie-kinsella-dies-aged-55

I can understand the design and maintenance incentives they might have had by using a unified house system, but this was an extremely disappointing decision by GDW in my opinion. Moreover, Traveller had always gotten criticism for militarism since most adventurer characters are...

First RPG was Holmes Basic D&D. Played it once as a solo player with a party of 6 PCs. One survived. Then I got roped into DMing out of a mix of the first Redbox Basic and AD&D. Those PCs kept going a LONG while - from about 1982 to 1996 (on and off play). Favorite campaign - that's harder to...

Oh, good god, no. People make mistakes and learn from them. There's no point in retconning if you're long past that moment. Even Advanced Squad Leader incorporates this rule - once you've moved on, the mistake stands.

Sometimes that guy seems like a really cold fish.