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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...

That's a great, fun idea -- unless jeff says "not really" and then the GM decides to punish them telling them they couldn't then. If a...

It's railroading because somebody not playing my character (the GM in this case) is controlling my character's choices in a way that...

In my experience, sit at their own hot-desk for the day in an open-plan office trying to look busy (and often being busy because they’ve...

Many of the problems and frustrations brought up in this thread can be solved with 30 seconds of out-of-character talk. Even other...

Of course. This is not an issue that can be solved by the rules either.

How you play your character. Not how the DM thinks you should play your character.

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...

I played 5e for years assuming that higher ground granted advantage, but eventually realized there isn't such rule 🙃. Then I played very...

And this is how I ended up playing a Subgenius Cleric of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs more times than I'd like to admit.

When I use established settings, I try to bring up list of gods, if there is one. If it's Msytara, I gave one-sentence to most important...

The cosmic balance of good against evil is a big thing in Dragonlance. Good started to ultimately triumph in the world with wars...

Comet has some good stuff sometimes. The Dark Crystal was on the other day. For me, Comet changed from a channel that got good reception...

I usually create dynamic situations where something is eventually going to happen even if the PCs do nothing. Not that such inaction...