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The story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is a tragedy of American history: a cautionary tale of class bias, social anxiety, and...

It is with some measure of irony that in this month’s editorial Ian Livingstone asks “when will we see a British RPG on the scene?” It’s...

I launched my first session at my local public library, and I’m pleased to report it was a success. But it was not without a few bumps...

Wizards of the Coast has made another D&D game designer - this time tapping Erin Roberts, creator of the Godsbreath setting seen in...

Please, dig them up. I do not think they exist. No. The DM pitched the campaign. The players accepted to have a look. Session zero had...

Haven't done it, but thought about it. A lot. I don't recall all the specifics, but the DMsGuild conversion may have been related to a...

I don’t see DnD as telling a written story, but rather letting a story emerge from a given setup.

Or if you want some "wild magic" style for it, there's a cumulative X% chance (or X or less on a d20 depending on how you define X) per...

What I'm getting at as far as being a narrative or conceptual consequence is that it either comes out in how a player (or DM) uses the...

I borrowed that from the King County library system in... 1991, 1992? I remember is being good but mixed.

I finished PKD's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. A trippy exploration of reality and religion that still maintains some classic...

I ask for a backstory that fits into the region and culture of the starting area.

Plenty of DMs in this thread with curated worlds said they will work with the player. I have, repeatedly. I have mentioned several ways...

I wouldn't think that they were much more advanced than we are now. Probably just less regulated. We can do modifications to the human...

Our group plays a WIDE variety of games. So for us Plot, Story, and Play to Find Out are not all talking about the same potato, but...