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The SHIVER series from Parable Games takes a broad approach to horror. Each expansion looks at a different subgenre, such as slasher...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Crowns in Crisis As you GM more and more adventures, it may become harder to find an unusual reason for...

But what does "skilled enough" MEAN? With climbing, were you too physically weak to pull yourself up, so you fell off? Did you grip...

Of course -- I'm not saying it's novel tech. I'm just saying that it's a specific thing for Cortex, and, without knowing how people...

Scene Distinctions are a mechanical feature of Cortex. They're Traits that belong to the Scene rather than characters -- often, they're...

Aren't they? Do you say this based on your own expert knowledge of runes in dungeons? Eg do you not think an archaeologist might be...

Sorry, but, I don't find, "Make anything up after the fact" to be a particularly useful definition of simulation. 🤷

Thanks for the clarification. Seems like I had my terminology off. The Broken Empires (TBE) being sim-lite rather than rules-lite helps...

Running 5E24, and given that a group is only expected to find 6 common magic items by level 5, they're rarely found. I'd rather give...

LAKE TEAM - SUBJECT: SHADE-9 - The Waiting Game Shade-9 processed Guldred’s information, indexing the threat level and geographical...

I did similar but made a high set value if you have 18 STR or more. BeltStrengthStrength if attuned with 18+ StrRarity Hill2125Rare...

you can always say that feats require natural ability score if you want to pick them.

I imagine there's an element of company policy, too. In the UK, it's 21, but many companies require 23. There may be some that set it at...

I’ve also noticed as I read these magazines that while the page count hasn’t changed for a while, I think the word count very much has...