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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...

I think WotC saw more value in making a lot of solid stat blocks with those different roles.

If creature type changes were all you saw templates for you would obviously find their poor returns less than notable. However those...

Well, I knew a guy who claimed to have spent a lot of time in Bielefeld. This explains a lot. In Italy we have a whole (albeit small)...

I'm someone who strongly believes that Spielberg has two eras in his career. His movies before JURASSIC PARK and his movies after...

I find templates to be very overrated, and love being lazy. I change a creature type and call it a day.

The thing is that it is very... unapologetic, I guess. It is what it is, and it is a LOT of it. If that's your thing, you'll love it. If...

No idea forgot the context.

Not exactly. Here is a wraith in Nimble, and it doesn't look like a wraith in D&D. It is not complicated, but if you read the 5e stat...

Jousting lances are, but lances used in war are not. They're not designed to shatter on impact, though. And actually, historically in...

I was hoping that The Mandalorian was building up to a reclamation of Mandalore. It sure looked that way to me in season 2. Even in...

You only roll damage dice and miss on a 1. Same with monsters. You crit on the highest die and it explodes, so damage can get swingy...

Yeah, I made the mistake of having my cousin start with The Colour of Magic, and it put him off from reading any more. IMO Thud! and I...