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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...

Yeah, that’s a decent way to do it. Though if you keep walking down the path of featification you end up with: … which, wow. That’s a...

Errr... which is true? Nimble 2e having its own rules/procedures as opposed to the first version, which has more of a hack to the 5e...

Hard to keep your staff motivated when you tell them that robots would do a better job.

I have no mouth, and I must scream

People love books full of playable ancestries.

"I noticed as a kid that when falling out of trees, my friends tended to go unconscious a lot, and sometimes die, but it didn't affect...

I honestly don't think it "needed" anything after the core book. She's a great adventure writer -- I've been using her 5E stuff for...

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...