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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 &...

Yes I liked that aspect, how evil slowly enters a community, corrupting it. Works as a metaphor on many levels and the novel is not...

That is a speaker, I'd guess. All the tubes are obviously for the pneumatics.

Good list, but I would add "a culture of deference to the monarch".

Well.... Took me some time time to show up here again. Heya to all the NL-ers still around! (Yes; even the kinglet...)

I tend to split the difference and just use "leveled" zones (which is basically no different than asking the players what dungeon level...

I'm surprised myself I dodged it this season, gotta hope I can cut it down before it fully gets ramped up, it's a busy rest of the...

IMO, the world axis is the same as the 5e version of the wheel - just seen from a different perspective. I don't think any of the D&D...

I had it for a bit then now I got long fatigue from carnage. Hope it’s not con crud.

More importantly is the fact that the adventures themselves didn't have enough detail about them for the gm to say literally anything...

I think a good example of a nod to balance or at least avoiding imbalance and conflict in fantasy literature comes from the short story...

I think true Neutral only works when you take alignment as the cosmic forces of Moorcock and Anderson, not as personality guides. When...

Militant Neutrality generally boils down to the Omelas problem, or a question of utilitarian ethics. In pursuit of a greater good...