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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...

Thank you! It was a fun exercise to take a mostly procedurally-generated game and find a way to build an adventure more or less "on top...

Oh! Tasha is a friend of mine! I'm an idiot for not pointing this out. She's got a lot of small light RPGs.

Exactly. I could also have a realistic process for a random chance of the characters having incurable magical cancer, but I don't...

An encounter in which the players can make meaningful decisions as to how to proceed. "A thief stealing something via off-screen...

Ok, that makes sense - His Majesty the Worm’s battle zones are like that, I think the author uses the decks of a ship as his analogy.

I think the way I wrote it needs some work. Here's how it should work: Are there enemies in the area you are moving into? Pick front or...

Nothing about his recent comments takes away from his championing of the OGL, IMO the best thing that ever happened to the RPG community...

Because it matters if someone (presumably neither of us) says something horrible online and she then sees it and is hurt. Which is...

That book was a waste the first time, and you would buy it again? To each their own.

I can think of maybe one other thing, but it will depend on what Western Reaches expands on fully.

Great game. I caught the 3rd period of Swiss-Sweden, too. It was a good day to watch hockey.

I would be happy to see her just settle into a cycle of putting out dungeons and bestiaries. Today's email makes it sound like she...

I don't even know if that's true. "Damage on a miss" isn't inherently "simpler" that a hit roll.