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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...

Registry Desk "NPC . . . gettin' ahead of yerself? Fine. Tha's a good question. NPC character sheets are a mite simpler than yers...

Not all the tokens, but those of which you are thinking, come from the Roll20 versions of the War of the Burning Sky adventures. I...

The long holiday weekend was nice. I got to do stuff but still felt like I got some good rest. Thursday evening 2/12: Lat Pulldown...

Because that freedom is very useful in many ways to non-jerk GMs to do non-jerk things, whereas no amount of rules restrictions will...

Look, if you want to make counterspelling fun, please don't make it save-or-suck. The best counterspells aren't counterspells. 1. A...

The percentages on the Thief class really do stack the deck against them. And that's compounded by the fact that frequently failure has...

Jesse Jackson has died. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/rev-jesse-jackson-civil-rights-activist-dies-rcna42408

Well, you didn’t believe the last 30 people to tell you you’re wrong…so there’s no point to me piling on.

Yep. The tunnel vision again. I said, "The DM can of course change the rules about how it's done if he was that kind of person."...

Grumble…mutter…Planescape… …mutter, grumble…Fated… < tangent > The “Rule of Threes” was a great excuse to start drawing triangles...

That you keep bringing up how much the books empower the GM to be a jerk "if [they are] that kind of person" does not bespeak of such a...