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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 &...

There's just so many (sobs in frustration and indecision). I like these, no promise of quality (except for A Rose for Talakara). Issue...

That is true, and certainly to disengage with a brand/product/franchise/etc completely is a more effective form of protest than simply...

That's an extremely weird misreading of Spider-Man. "With great power comes great responsibility" is a quote from his Uncle Ben. Peter...

For one thing, it is comparatively easy. These days, they typically film in color, and then make it B&W in post-processing. Also...

His cultists were in the Ebon Triafmd 3E. He was a deity there. Secrets iirc.

players just being able to decide if their character knows a thing is IMO more closer to 'information spontaneously appearing in your...

But he never really did anything relating to that title as a god, in any of his adventures Vecna LIVES! - he wants to remove all other...

So, I guess cynicism is cool again, is that it? Embrace the power of "and", people. A thing can be art AND a commercial success. A...

Villains by Necessity, by Eve Forward, is a solid referent for this. In the novel, Good won the apparently-not-quite-eternal conflict...

That’s not just geek culture, that’s all of late-stage capitalism. Our entire society is based around making the line go up, and you can...

Things cost what people will pay for them.

Clone spell does the same thing now.