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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...

Not to be lazy, i just checked ability descriptions in 3.5 PHB and 5e2014 one. 3.5 one is much more defining and goes more in depth...

To me that sounds like a bad game. Instead of the GM railroading, why not have a better way of getting the game off the ground? It's...

I think by using really open setting as the contrast with railroad, you are building in an assumption that at least some RPGers - eg me...

OK, put everyone on 1min short rest. Done. not with that attitude, hehe. this is a good baseline Masteries as at-will powers maneuvers...

Reading through a published adventurer. I don’t know why, but I always find that to be such a chore. The worst is reading through keyed...

Makes just as much sense as anything else does.

Exactly this for me! A mild panic sets in if I feel I have not prepped enough and yet I have been extremely fortunate as the sessions...

Players?

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

Wait, Yodas are Gremlins? That explains why we've never seen more than a couple of them. The Mogwai are actually Ewoks, and Yoda, Yaddle...

Logic isn't huge in the Star Wars universe. Remember, this is the setting in which Jedi went from ubiquitous to legend, in a single...

I don't really see how it becomes the GM's prerogative to tell a player how to play their PC. If (say) a low INT is an aspect of the...

That would be the wrong solution to that problem for anyone I would game with.