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It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Critical Role began on Geek & Sundry, setting actual play video on fire, and launching...

In a monster-filled world, what's okay to eat? Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Drawing inspiration from the book Some We Love, Some We...

Sword and sorcery games tend to appeal to the old school side of the role playing game audience. Source material like Howard’s Conan and...

A 5e variant where every class-subclass is a 2 or 3 attribute MAD would be intriguing

That's an interesting take. I think it would work best as either a martial or a half-caster gish (like a paladin) who picks up monster...

Changing the class from the sorceror class to either a monster person class or a dragon class would free up this class from past issues.

I thought his death was perfect. To be taken out by the pacifist leader that he'd been taking advantage of, just as he'd realised he had...

Many of these... ...are good examples of fail forward, or partial successes/partial failures. Just FYI.

I can see that. Thanks for taking the time to put it into this context.

Meanwhile, the post credit montage where we see what happened to various supporting characters was brutal.

Again, she was focused, even driven, before, but she became obsessed and made mistakes she likely wouldn't have made before. (think: her...

Except that this is about failing die rolls, not the premise of the campaign. They can still fail to stop the BBEG or evil ritual or...

Shouldn't teaching actually teach to keep trying after a failure? Which isn't something that usually isn't allowed in RPGs.

I think it really did, starting with how out-of-sorts she was when it happened. She'd always been driven, but losing Syril she became...