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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...

Sure. There are always a few bad actors or just entirely clueless players. One of the benefits of being in my late 40s is that I've...

My general view is that if the GM is establishing the stakes, establishing the situation, establishing the theme and establishing the...

I think part of the social contract of D&D is that you do not pick a course of action that sidelines the rest of the PCs.

These rules were removed from paladins for a very good reason. Those being that they actively encouraged bad DMing and negative play...

Even assuming that 6E has a CC published SRD, there will be some folks that delay buying new stuff as they finish up current campaigns...

For sure, and I think one of the goals for the revised 5e ruleset was to have less "Mother, may I?" rules, where the DM interpretation...

Draw Steel! has a downtime activity that's basically that yeah, "gather info to set up for the next objective." Here's an example of a...

That's the great thing about natural language; we can all be wrong simultaneously!

You can run it however you want but you are simply adding details that aren't in the spell description. I will say that if players...

Sure, but that's something you have to be very careful of as a GM. What's apparent in your mental frame as a GM often doesn't translate...

Are DMs really so lazy that they can't just make up their own rule at their own table for forcing Warlock players to play to their pact...

I found it amusing when I came across mention of the three pillars of gameplay in the 2024 PHB. The book talked about the three pillars...

This is a pretty solid example of why spells that create mental effects, but are using "natural language" to do so, shouldn't mix...