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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 &...

Only because you allowed it as DM. The class lore requires a patron and pact, not some magical accident. That was your choice for your...

Same. I've been thinking that I should start a new Shadowdark thread. But that would lock out that other person, so maybe somebody...

Crawfords BS rulings and lore statements can take a long walk off of a short pier. I'm not obligated to follow his ridiculous...

No they don’t. The there is no game mechanics attached to the patron. If a warlock decides that they don’t have a patron and their...

Sure sounds like folks want to wash their hands of this one, though in all honesty, it sounds a lot closer to what Winninger proposed...

Is a sports referee true neutral or should be?

I find that pretty much all published adventures are railroads. A book can provide a situation with 16 possible resolutions, but it...

I would so love to engage with this but these threads are always on such shaky ground from the board rules, but yes, I think you are...

I guess traversing lava is not really fast. Flee is different from suiciding. No. I don't think the new spell wants anything...

Depending on how you define the hobby—the D&D hobby, or the broader TTRPG hobby—D&D has never claimed to be its steward. That seems to...

Yes. It absolutely 100% was. So much so that someone on wotc's payroll would have featured making it clear if lonely Isle were...

Right. And by picking warlock the player decided to have a patron he is obligated to. That was his choice to make.