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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...

Ryan Dancey, the Chief Operating Officer of boardgame publisher Alderac Entertainment Group, no longer works for the company, following...

If that wasn't a risk, they wouldn't be a smooth-talking player. That's virtually the definition of a player that's charisma higher...

I enjoyed those a lot as a teen when they came out and they show a development in Salvatore's writing over the original Icewind Dale...

Participating in per se, no. Participating in in a way they might want to? Charisma is the clear poster boy. If you've got a 5...

You can't get hurt in D&D. You can only fall down and maybe die. That's a huge part of the problem with hit points.

Binged the two seasons of "Queens of Mystery" (2019-2021 Acorn). Juliet Stevenson is spectacular as the narrator and makes me wonder...

What a leader says and what employees hear are two very very different things. And it doesn't matter if he is right or wrong, your...

And a red herring. Nice work by the author.

What might that look like, that could be compared to a low-Int character having the solution to a puzzle? The only case I can imagine...

There was no criticism. "GM fiat", and the expectation of the setting acting with agency that goes along with it, is a necessary and...

Honestly, what disturbs me most about this is Cardboard Herald's response. I don't think publicly making an ultimatum helps the...

"Underneath the Ruined Watchtower of Some Forgotten Duke" is a great module name.

Not everyone accepts your premise about what constitutes the core of RPGs. To me, exploring an imaginary setting through your character...