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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...

Exactly there is no formula for determining someone's perfect movie, it's very much personal to the viewer, using whichever criteria...

if it's not a spell and without concentration? why not.

or axe the whole concept of "slayer of X". that is a good background story and really bad mechanic in game. have ranger be Slayer of...

Agree to disagree. The game needed a way to resolve characters being good at things other than combat, and basing it entirely on...

Yeah, they're fairly different, unless we use definitions so broad (like you did above) to reduce everything to being same-y. And hey...

With my system, each player keeps track of their own initiative. Since action “speeds” determine the die you roll and there are no...

AEDU is a great idea, but needs ability to be more customizable. 1st of E, needs to be from really short rest, 1minute or 5min max...

I don't think it's obviously a fantasy piece, so far - the closest thing is the thunderbolt iron, and well, thunderbolt iron is a real...

Okay, so this may be a bit of a "hot take," but I've realized that part of the problem in fantasy RPGs in general, and D&D-adjacent...

Yes, that's exactly my problem with the more common viewpoints around classes. It's the idea that thousands of NPCs are all going to...

Then I'm at loss as to why you don't see any roleplaying in solo games. You're responding to inputs, internal and external. You're...

Classes and levels are both player-facing constructs for creating player characters that are "balanced" against each other. We know...

The best solo game experience I've seen recently was SoloDark, based on the Shadowdark rules.