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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...

Conversational flow and having the player say how they defend themselves. I say "Balhorn, the elf gestures in your direction and a...

There's a whole lot of difference between "you can describe what this magic spell looks like however you want, the special effects don't...

Most games where the dm doesn’t roll have the players make all rolls. So a roll randomized still happens it’s just the player rolling...

Wow. No. It was a new edition with new rules. People are welcome to use those new rules or not, but the implication that people were...

Yes, between Ray & Chris & the end product, there does seem to be very much a feel of "person in charge had an idea, but when someone...

I think an important thing that happens in this space is that people use their own imagination to fill in the gaps between and around...

No, that’s exactly what this is. To answer your Q, both Chris and I left the project.

I think 4e probably was a notch further along on this than older editions, but only one notch. The unforgivable crime that 4e committed...

The idea that what we're calling the fiction is 'just flavour' is probably a core problem in how different people see what playing an...

The fiction isn't "just flavor" though, it's the backbone of the experience? It is how close something is to happening. How likely...

Hopefully there's more about D&D in the live Q&A. I never get up early enough for that

From a more specific RPG point - outside of CRPG, media etc - the way they are engaging with customers through Beyond and VTT partners...