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Saw these guys on a sponsored FB ad. I know nothing about them but figured I would pass on the news to those who would be better judges. https://herotime1.com/

RPGs played on a computer used to be called CRPGs and D&D was an RPG. At some point computer game journalism dropped the "C" and called CRPGs simply RPGs. I guess this was in the 90s or so? Yet when the tabletop rpg industry started getting traction again, instead of adding using CRPG again...

The CBC radio podcast talks to a professional DM and runs the host through a little scenario.

I got mine a couple of week ago and the paper seems really nice and the map is also a thick paper stock. Though I wonder why you'd give a player's hand out that also has secret information on the other side? Like most DB products, there's additional bits and bobs a GM can steal for their own...

Mad wizards to the extreme https://io9.gizmodo.com/d-ds-guide-to-ravenloft-magical-disaster-horrors-await-1846888128

After a long illness, Larry DiTillio passed on March 16th at the age of 76. There's a good chance that DiTillio was a part of your childhood or your later geeky years and not even know it. While gamers will remember him as the writer for the Origins award-winning Masks of Nyarlathotep or T&T's...

According to the official Monte Cook Game's Twitter account, recent customer shipments come with a surprise -- handwriten 5e notes on torn Numenera pages. "Some very mysterious notes are being found in a few MCG shipments... We're sure we wouldn't have the faintest idea what those scrawlings...

Is my memory right? The first Unearthed was about Eberron and then we had a UA Artificer redo this year. I thought there was another.

In my longest 3.0 game, we went from 1st to 16th, with weekly game sessions, in about two years. Has anyone played the game long enough to get the gist of how fast level advancement is with 4.0?

One of Robert Hewitt Wolfe's quotes on SciFi Wire: Which isn't to say that we don't consult with him[author of Dresden Files novels, Jim Butcher] , and he doesn't have notes like, 'You know, he really shouldn't fall out of the third-floor window and float to the ground, because that's just a...

Where did he get these players?!? Everytime I get someone who find a broken combo, they ride it for as long as they can. Some even whine that's "not fair" when I put a stop to it. They expect me to "meet the challenge" with NPCs built just to tackle the problem PC instead of putting them back...

Browsing True20, it looks like it's got promise. It's a lighter d20 without going overboard. For those who've run it, what's strengths, its weaknesses?

I was looking over the new PrC format WotC has and noticed the "Adaption" section, which details how the class can fit in Forgotten Realms, Eberron and homebrews. I don't know about other DM's but most of these sections seem pretty common sense to me. Have DM gotten so lazy that WotC can pad a...

In the last few minutes of tonight's show they gave out a real phone number. Anyone catch it?

I thought I read once that all of Bad Axe's Heros of High Favor race books were going to be updated to 3.5 and complied in one book with some additonal stuff for psionic classes and humans. Is the project still a go?

I've got some players who are getting a tad too insistent that I consider using Iron Heroes, saying it will free the "game" from dependence on magic items ... in a campaign where my players complain they don't get enough of what ... you guessed it, magic items. If I ran DND RAW, this might have...

I'm still digesting Spycraft 2.0 and one of the things I've noticed is the "sliding scale" and "damage save" mechanics for minor NPCs. Basically, mooks and monsters are listed by "Tiered" modifers that are based on the level of the players. A minor thug may still be a minor challenge...

Some days I feel like a dying breed. I'm an "old fashioned" geek. I don't like sports and love the cerberal stuff. It took me years to branch out into other games, like wargames and boardgames. Until I became a reporter and my job required it, most mundane matters like politics and finances...

Most of my d20 stuff is SciFi based, but hey I'm always looking for ways to speed up combat and such. How would you create alien species in C&C? Got an example? Could you do a SIEGE based psionics system? Would the fighter wane in favor of a Ranger ranged weapon class? How would you handle...

I just got Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary and read up on the Clockwork template, which used a Clockwork Choker as an example bodyguard critter. It got me thinking about a WotC web article called "Solution by Substitution," which suggests changing spell names and appearances (but not mechanics)...