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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 &...

This really is a pointlessly small nitpick about a fairly old movie, but in The Mummy Returns, the scene where they're racing to get...

Good lord, NO. Noooooooooooo! I would never want to tell another player that they're having badwrongfun, but if we're not rolling for...

I know that D&D has been getting all sorts of wide spread acceptance but, this was a new experience for me. I teach online English...

I don't see how it being fictional makes a difference.

That is really a subjective question and depends on your taste. What I find to be “better” you might not like at all. For me...

It's also how you interact with the setting, and that's very important to me. In fact, it's what makes role-playing an enjoyable...

One reason I rate clerics and druids highly. Wizards basically dont have any excellent saves.

Enemy spellcasters also make spellcasting checks, which replaces part of the role that saving throws fill.

WotC has nothing to do with this happening. If they want to do Star Frontiers -- and there's zero evidence that they do -- they'll do it...

Sure, but I was responding an absolute. You should be able to go somewhere and find interesting to do, or come up with something.

Sure. But it also is a rather common form of railroading.

But the prompt is your own text.