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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...

But I do trust the old OGL. It's a legal document, and I am confident that I and my lawyers understand it. Trusting WotC? That’s...

I notice no one here is talking about the fact that birds aren't real. Everyone here is clearly part of the conspiracy.

<Looks at Crawling Birds, Macaws with the strength of an Ox, read birds, and especially the corvids of Oz> I think we all wish that...

No. This is no implicit. This is you making a judgment unsupported by the text.

Fleeing does not actually forces you into a direction. Approach says something about the most direct route. Flee does not. So to cite...

Billy Steinberg, who helped write hit songs such as "Like a Virgin" and "True Colors", died today of cancer. He was 74.

In another thread, I identified something I would consider railroading if it happened in any game in which I agreed to play. I.e. if I...

Yes it is: you're to move away from the caster as best you can, and "as best you can" includes moving directly away rather than at an...

Many of these challenges are the same ones faced in integrating AI with software development, and there has been massive progress in...

With or without notes/reminders? So in my own playing around with them, i've learned a bit about llms and using them from both my own...

Since I never played it, I disqualify it from the running.

Here is an example to chew on: A BBEG casts command on a PC and the PC fails the save. the command is Flee. The PC is in a big open...

If you have five role-playing groups playing the same 5e adventure, they aren't going to be played in quite the same way and have...