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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...

You should really try the new monsters, especially if you already have the books. The old ones are badly balanced, finicky and all over...

Well, he wrote it. We’ll never know what it sounds like.

This is lowkey one of my favorite "rules" of SD.

I think the old concerns from 1e and 2e are coloring viewpoints here and causing misperceptions to occur. We aren't saying that we are...

No way at all. And if he is, I be we see people leave.

I really like the Shadowdark approach. Basically for thief-y kinds of things, Thief characters are assumed to be successful if they...

This comment might shed some light on the debates raging in a couple of other threads about "playing your attributes". OSR has a "Cops...

Any chance he gets (re)hired by WotC?

Gonna bet they hard-coded a fix for this specifically since it got kind of famous 😆 "if someone asks how many R's are in strawberry, say...

Ah yes, arguing for hearts and minds, very productive in a thread asking for exactly what your pushing again. Essentially, thread...

I was surprised. I though there were more robust random monster tables. The random encounter tables provided are cool, but they are very...

He sure does move about a lot!

I've started "The Strength of the Few" after waiting for weeks for my spot in the library queue and paused it after a few chapters. I...