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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 &...

And I have been thoroughly shamed into never mentioning or using AI ever again. :)

Bounded accuracy doesn't mean that everyone has the same chances at everything. Like I said, a total noob can hit 20, and in my game...

And I have been thoroughly shamed into never mentioning or using AI ever again. :)

Can you give examples of what'd be a No? Maybe an example of anything ttrpg-published? Is Eberron a no?

I don’t find control spells enjoyable much. All they do is stop you from, you know, playing the game. Some make you change your turns...

I think focusing on the OGL is too small of a view. Yes, it was a contentious issue, but it was only one piece in a string of...

Besides "magic," it was more to demonstrate to those saying that it had problems with doing four wings, or with doing odd numbers of...

My barbarian literally ran into lava after being commanded to flee by an ancient red dragon. Why wouldn’t he?

All of which, I would argue, has effectively rendered bounded accuracy meaningless. A task that can’t be accomplished by a person...

Having talked to several of them, I don’t think that’s true but I often worry that the current team isn’t the future team — which is...

I'm trying to figure out how a creature with five wings (or any odd number of wings) could possibly fly in a straight line. It's...

Seems like yet another consequence of 5e's continued inability to codify magical item value. 3e and 4e both understood that magic items...