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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...

With the bar set so low for difficulty in 5E, I feel these suggestions may as well do away with the dice and just let people narrate how...

A focus on doing the essentials better, rather than adding lots of whistles and bells? Kudos to them.

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed...

That's true. I should qualify my previous statement. But even the teeny tiny games on itch are often building off of RPGs that have...

I do love the Indiana Jones movies. Adventure is probably one of my favourite genres: Indiana Jones, the mummy with Brendan Fraser...

Most quotable Mad Max movie, hands down.

I can’t see post you are replying to, but one thing I learned as a teacher - if someone is not engaging, punishing them isn’t going to...

1) I believe that in 3E, Yggdrassil worked like a transitive plane (see the 3E Manual of the Planes for more on them). 2) 3E uses the...

As a heavy Beyond and Maps user, the focus on rebuilding the engine running DDB from the ground up this year is incredibly welcome news...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE allow DMs to black and greylist material for use in the Character Builder at the campaign level.

Yeah. We could all make more money by breaking the law. But we choose not to.

Listening to the latest Ship of the Dead podcast, it was wryly amusing to hear Luke get told, to his face, that Ravaged By Storms was...

FWIW, the original D&D Beyond site was cobbled together as a demo. When WotC greenlit it, the team never had time to go back and build...