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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...

...err....because the low charisma comes with a penalty to die rolls.

I'll say it again: The WHOLE POINT of making 2024 "backwards compatible" was to NOT do this!

The think about most jerk DMs is they believe they are not jerk DMs.

I was about to agree with you, but on further reflection, I think you're mistaken. I think that (in spite of your attempts otherwise)...

All of these assume the only purpose of Int is to provide modifiers to certain dice rolls.

I think the trick here is to add a layer below subclass to give extra customization, then you can just lean into stuff with the...

The question is « who decides whether an Int 8 character is smart enough to toss a pebble to distract the guard? ». The rules are...

Either way. My point is that we (the players of the game) don't need to get the calipers out. IMO it satisfies the spell that both the...

All colours have lore, and adaptation isn't in blue. Blue is Knowledge, Creativity, Subtlety, Man-made, Intellect, Trickery...

Yes, sometimes I need to tell AI to give me a solution as if X didn't exists (because X doesn't, but AI think's it does). One time I...

Isn't every movie shown in a theater a money grab thing? The realities of capitalism aside, this is not unique. The movie theatre my...

Allow me this almost off-topic: Yesterday youtube algoritm showed me the reaction of teenages to cartoons from 80s and 90s and they...

Psst... You forgot what was being discussed. We were talking about how "mass market" & "hardcore serious tabletop gamers" are very...