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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...

There have been a few with upbeat endings, but the premise of the show (which is an anthology) is all the ways technology, especially...

To be fair, when the conversation transitioned from railroading to Intelligence scores somewhere around post #500, an assumption of...

I love coming up with ideas for adventures but really don't like the tedium involved in writing them up and mapping them out...

More grist for the mill (the mill being my voluminous A5e rules document. I'd likely pick it up.

THE FIFTH ELEMENT is one of those movies, along with STARGAT,E that I saw in the theaters upon release and that bounced off of me like...

Well, you can always argue some things are less core to a character than others. If you've got a wide range of skills, some of them are...

Not necessary for roleplay in general, but if the game has them I believe they should be part of the roleplay of your PC.

Well, you can always argue some things are less core to a character than others. If you've got a wide range of skills, some of them are...

Agreed. As I said upthread, your attributes can be a rich source of material for roleplaying, but they are not necessary.

Eh, there's still plenty of trad-style games out there. I'd argue other than the focus on bennies, Savage Worlds is, and its not...

Well, elves have differing physical characteristics, most notably lifespan, so I expect those differences will manifest. And as for...

I actually read through the latest Moldvey draft on my lunch break, and I think the social encounter structure stuff he's added here is...

I think the more complicated a character is, mechanically, the smaller a set of those things a player is likely to hang their...