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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...

Strangely, the rules were instead written to assume the players will be jerks who min-max and meta-game every last possible advantage if...

1st level is the rules. Sure, the DM can house rule that 3rd level is really 1st level and 1st and 2nd level don't exist, but that's...

I feel fortunate that the group I'm running for currently doesn't seem to have any social referee issues. I've only had to really step...

I'm curious who says that worldbuilding belongs exclusively to the players? Because I have literally never seen anyone say that the GM...

And the Stanford Prison Experiment is extremely relevant with respect to older versions of D&D because BT being TOLD to strip the class...

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...

I was going to say the social referee bit but @Deset Gled covered it. Lil surprised not to see more folks mentioning it.

Strangely, the rules were instead written to assume the players will be jerks who min-max and meta-game every last possible advantage if...

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

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...

For me, the short of it, I enjoy DMing when I want to, I do not enjoy DMing when I feel I have to. And when I talk about DMing, it's...

Slayer of Everything? Sounds like Hunter's Mark

As complex as the A5e Fighter? curious