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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...

His use of the word "my" did limit it to just him, though. If he had said that Sandbox play is THE One True Way, he'd be saying it broadly.

First, calm down. If you’re demanding that people “admit” things, you are in an adversarial position which cannot possibly end the way...

Who talked about narrative-based mechanics? Playing to find out is a state of mind, a low-or-no prep, open-minded way to approach the...

Bigger than the "just go to the movies" audience, since that audience doesn't exist any more. But not big enough to make the movie...

Dragonbane/Trudvang is well on its way. $642K and first day isn't even over yet.

That's not true. I'll often give extra information or rolls for things the player wouldn't think about because his PC is smarter or...

Very much agree. Its gotten to the point, I dont know if its age, patience, mental bandwidth, whatever, where the biggest hurdle by far...

That's plain old RAW 5e, not stripped down anything. Which is not what I'm looking for.

Players?

I tend toward the slightly baroque and obscure when named afterward - like In Which Our Heroes Devour a Goblin Pie. I name session...

@Micah Sweet By the way, despite how we butt heads on this (and related topics) all the time, you're one of the people here that I'd...

We have had rules creep in from computer games. Back when I regularly played 3.X one "rule" we had was that summoned monsters took XP...

Just use the PHB only, no supplements. Boom, done.