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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 &...

I know China has a rep for doing things for a reason, but, I suspect "because it's fun and social and not staring at a screen" might...

They absolutely do? Like, "Subtle", "Mental", "Emotion", and yes, "Manipulate" all do or involve what they say on the tin. But more than...

This brings up the idea of figuring out a way to differentiate the Ranger by making it the epitome of a mid-weight "skirmisher" class. I...

personally i don't care about my ranger having a pet, though i'd happily agree to them having find familiar on their spell list.

That's because it doesn't exist and it is a pretty gross thing to say.

Overall great points. True, that is a big boost for one level, but IMO Expertise is at least as big of a deal, and rogue level 7 is...

Shattered Obelisk Elder brain stuns entire party.

Betrayed witch's daughter wants revenge.

I like the PBTA “scout ahead” move some folks run: on a 10+ you pick from a list, on a 7-9 you can pick one from the list but there’s a...

I think this is a solid way to go about it. I agree that sometims its is pretty annoying to just have to narrate all of the infiltrators...

Having gotten back into TTRPGs in 2014/2015 after 24 years of not playing, I immediately felt it was a golden era. The OGL "crisis" and...

If you read the whole first paragraph, you would see that I dispute that a would-be warlock would bother or be capable of finding out...