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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...

Right! You needed to make the dish for a party connected to the start of Lent or something?

I don't think that's actually true; its entirely possible for the GM to give hints to a player playing a particularly smart character to...

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed...

The timing is what started this whole mess. Until this year, I could get corned beef from that store year round! Not seeing them- or...

Darryl has had some serious health setbacks. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-darryl-motts-medical-recovery...

The challenge with so many of these ideas is that they encroach on other spells, feats, actions, or abilities that do something similar...

Besides the degenerate case I've mentioned, sometimes game systems present attributes but don't actually have a lot of mechanics...

Probably so, though I'm not sure its intrisnically worse than systems with psychological disadvantages. I've seen the argument "But you...

Its a legitimate position, just not one I can entirely share. To be honest, its one that surprises me a bit from a one-time Hero System...

i love the idea of alignment i think it has some good potential and really wish more was done with it, the principles of each axis IMO...

As discussed earlier, it can happen because of a misalignment of how much reward-to-risk the GM and players have. They keep looking for...

That also speaks to Good and Evil being teams for him, more than morality as we'd view them, something which everyone who's written PHB...

Oh contraire! In D&D, missing is a breath of fresh air. It's a moment when there's no decision paralysis, there are no extra dice to...