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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...

The thing I probably most dislike about GMing... ...is all the people online invested in claiming you're doing it wrong, for any value...

I have to admit, it looks really cool...

I rolled up a random Shadowdark monster which turned out to be a "were stirge" and this is what ChatGPT came up with:

Learning new rules is big thing i don't like. When i was in HS or Uni, learning new medium to high crunch game was fun. Now it's chore i...

Huh. I find it dull and colorless to consider the six attributes the most important determinants of a character. If I were to describe...

1st level is a game construct, not part of the world. There is no reason to suppose a 3rd level character was ever 1st. It doesn't...

Not until you start jumping on people for not leaning into the parts of their character that aren't important and that they didn't pick...

If AI development was spearheaded by some United Federation of Progress, the outcome an assistant computer like in Star Trek, I'd be...

As I said, class fluff is suggestions, not rules, which is why so much of it is contradictory, and there are a great many different ways...

All that does is jump him to the level where he finds out who he made the deal with at 1st level. :p I don't understand what WotC was...

Yeah, and past a point you can kiss my lily-white goblin if you think you get to tell me how to do that. I'm playing the game for my own...

Since you ask, here's the complete data. But I don't want to derail the thread from your excellent work. @Celebrim regarding the skill...

As I said, class fluff is suggestions, not rules, which is why so much of it is contradictory, and there are a great many different ways...