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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 problem isn't that they're roleplayed as they're smarter or more charismatic; its that they're played as though they're smarter or...

Well, arguably because nobody really knows what hit points represent, so they're going to be not really visible to a character, where at...

Well, SW is a multi-purpose power tool (which I'm aware some people have tried to do with D&D 5e but I've expressed my opinion of trying...

Also, not all trad games are D&D, or based on an iteration of its rules. I can name a dozen off the top of my head. Completely different...

I don't think it's the same thing. The PDF on DriveThru was released in 2022 and seems to be a house-rules pamphlet for 5E. The one...

Mounted combat (ranged or melee) in D&D is great right up until someone lobs a fireball at your 7th level party and all the 19hp horses...

It is an issue! I hate it! Edit: And also, there aren’t thousands of PCs. There are maybe 6?

Holy hell. I can't believe it has been 10 years since that thread. I need to go hide under a blanket.

I believe they're repurposing the Podlings to represent Kithkin (one of the iconic Lorwyn Kindred –– essentially the prototype for...

I also think that the patron should have a lot of leverage in the narrative. Where we probably disagree is that I don’t think that a...

No it's not. There is literally no difference in the fiction between an NPC and a PC, so treating them differently makes no sense. If...

For me, it's Yellow Submarine: eminently quotable, ridiculously nonsensical (yet it follows its own internal logic), and excellent music...

I went to a college reunion this past summer where they hosted us overnight on campus, and the campus security protocols I had to jump...