Latest activity

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...

Is there a reason you keeping making the same joke at my expense? I don't know what you're talking about.

Follow-up: I made the image below for a recent game, using AI. The players had been building an airship for a number of sessions, and...

If you're particularly curious about Draw Steel mechanics, you could look at the Steel Compendium site ( Rules Index - Steel Compendium...

You know what can also eliminate characters from a campaign? Anyone with a weapon. Anyone with a damaging spell. Anyone standing near...

I think the problem dancy doesn't see is that without the people constantly learning by making games that use each others stuff we don't...

Dragonbane! Mausritter! Pendragon!

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a great DM, but if someone sent me this out of the blue: "Create a low-level NPC that the party...

I'm curious if the re-write of the backend to make adding new stuff easier if we will see a return of Unearthed Arcana being implemented...

Some great points and questions here for the AMA.

I've had players completely rebuild characters from the ground up (new race and class) due to events within the campaign. To my mind...

Granular controll by the DM would be great. I would switch to beyond in a heartbeat. Let me toggle off Darkvision. Let me toggle off...

I have actually been known to change players' subclasses on them as a consequence. But I have two hard rules: Not without the consent...

It was a large post on LinkedIn, the business platform, where he announced to the world that his designers were below average and...