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One of my long frustrations is that even though Faerun is huge and has room for expansion (the unexplored continents in addition to...

This month Ian Livingstone notes that times are changing in the industry. In the 70s you could pretty easily create a game and get it...

I mean, part of why folks said that is because, all through the playtest, that was in fact the official line. That it had to be 6-8...

I think it is worth differentiating between actual "low prep" and moving prep around. Mostly, this is frontloading it: developing the...

I thought about how many gargoyles of a location were determined by the GM, and that while I have a mechanism to create a gargoyle, not...

I think that’s a great assessment. I appreciate the work that both Perkins and Crawford did overall, though Crawford drove me crazy with...

Discussing some related stuff with a friend:

It's the last Monday in November, and we're entering the home stretch to close out 2025. It felt weird missing last week's Roundup, but...

Hello guys, My name is Manuel and I have created a set of six special dice for game masters featuring 66 different traits to shape non...

Yuuuup. Put the players to work. I'd pull back from letting them put things directly in the story, but let their ideas become "yours."...

I think that, in general, the desire for the setting to offer hooks to player options is very understandable. I support the general...

I have a Word doc that I placed all the monsters in over the years as I need them. It helps to cut/paste into another Word Doc to make...