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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...

I’ve never really understood what people who work in offices do!

I love the fact that the wider Forgotten Realms have been detailed for 5e - particularly Calimsham and the Dalelands - and brought into...

Here's the new spell Shiroko devised on her own. Coldflame Foxfire Evocation [Water] Level: Sor/Wiz 1, Wu Jen 1 Components: V, S...

I enjoyed 2e's Skills and Powers - an Intelligence 10 meant you could have a Knowledge of 8 but a Logic/Reason of 12.

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...

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...