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In most games, at least outside of combat situations, there isn't much concern among my players or I about how much time passes within the game. i.e. Whether the PCs are interviewing the burgomaster about local happenings, going on an epic pub crawl to tap some underworld contacts, poring over...

The other day I was in the shower (don't worry, kids, this is a clean thread), and I started humming a tune without realizing it was the Super Mario Bros. music. I'll do the same thing with the music from the original Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Gauntlet, and sometimes tunes from games...

Okay, just to keep you from coming at me with pitchforks and torches; If you and your group are having fun then you're playing the game correctly. But....are you really playing the game correctly? i.e. As it was envisioned by the creators? There are games where there seems to be a dissonance...

The movie that best encapsulates bromance would have to be Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. Why not have some rules for interpersonal relationships in RPGs? One thing I thought of doing was making sure every PCs had contacts related to any skills if they were high enough. Someone with a...

Rather than hijack another thread, I thought this topic warranted its own discussion. As with most discussions on TTRPG, what's appropriate for one game might not be appropriate for another game. I might handle computers completely differently in Buffy the Vampire Slayer compared to Delta...

I'm currently at the tail end of a Greyhawk campaign I've been running for a year. As commonly happens, we reached a point many levels ago where gold ceased to have any meaning. The player characters couldn't purchase better equipment, finer food, or a nicer home, so treasure was essentially...

https://rollingout.com/2025/11/08/funko-announces-concerns-companys-future/ Sales are down, their debt is high, and they're hemorrhaging money. I own exactly one Funko product and it's a Cthulhu figure that's been sitting on my desk at work for about ten years now. Occasionally a coworker...

I just wrapped up running Winter of Atom (WoA), a full campaign for the Fallout 2d20 RPG published by Modiphius. The long and short of it is as follows: This campaign is worth playing. I'm going to avoid meaningful spoilers as best I can, placing them in the bubble of shame, at least in the...

Even when I was younger, I never attended cons on a regular basis, and before this last weekend, the last con I had attended was the final Roc*Kon here in Little Rock way back in 2004. Last year I made it part of my New Year's resolution to go to a con this year and I settled on Gamehole Con in...

Starting last week, I am periodically redirected to the website listed below when I am here at EnWorld. This does not happen when I'm browsing other websites, and I've checked to make sure my system was up-to-date and free of viruses and malware. It occurs to me that I should have gotten a...

This thread is inspired by Stephen King's recent comment regarding the violence of Marvel movies being almost "pornographic." In a nutshell, King's criticism is the movies show all sorts of destruction to a city but very little on how that impacts the people there. i.e. No blood. It's a...

So there we were, playing our 5th edition Greyhawk campaign, when we veer off topic and start chatting about fantasy movies from the 1980s. Player #5: I liked Conan the Destroyer better than Conan the Barbarian. Player #4: Agreed. Me: What the $#@%? Player #1: Yeah, what the $#@%...

In the early 90s, there was a little magazine published for Cyberpunk 2020 called Interface. It was a quarterly magazine that introduced new cyberware, weapons, drugs, NPCs, organizations, etc., etc. to use in your Cyberpunk game. In 1991, Peter Christian wrote an article for Interface called...

In my last session, the player characters defeated an adult black dragon and it was a lot of fun. At the end of our session, I told them I'd figure out something fun to do with the corpse. And by fun, I mean let's make some magic items. So think of what parts of the dragon you might use to...

Inspired by the threads What Does a "Successful" RPG Look Like and Jason Carl on White Wolf's Return, Mage: The Ascension Plans, @Ruin Explorer got me to thinking. Just looking back and the sheer number of books published for various games in the 80s, 90s, and into the 2000s, my perception is...

Yeah, it's a contentious title, but we're living in a post-social media world where click bait titles are how you get views. But let's start from the beginning. Is combat in 5th edition tedious? After a few weeks of running it with the players moving from levels 1 through 4, I can safely say...

I've seen various sources saying most D&D campaigns end by the time the characters are between levels 7-10. Assuming this is true, why bother with levels 11-20? Okay, I get it. Assuming most campaigns go no higher than 10, there are still some people who do have campaigns that go that high...

I have a player with a character concept a bit outside the norm. He's playing a Druid, and his intention is to have a pet animal that does the direct fighting while he sits in the back and casts supportive spells. If you've ever played World of Warcraft, this sounds an awful lot like one of...

My long term group has faced some challenges the last few years with two people moving to another country and one moving into hospice. Player A went ahead and recruited two of his board gaming buddies, players B and C. Players B and C weren't bad people, but they really weren't all that...

I am to Monks as Snarf is to Bards. And just so we're clear, I have an intense dislike for them in the context of most D&D settings. I rather like them in places like Legend of the Five Rings or Kar-Tur. It's like someone tried to shoehorn Kwai Chang Caine from Kung-Fu* into D&D and it's...