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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...

Yes. But, in pushing back on the technical point, your argument looks like apologia. Here's the thing: Production of scientific gen...

I was there. Yes, that was the plan.

The word "destroy" does not appear in the quote you present. Instead, her refers to, "the lowest level possible," but does not define...

I think you are combining two very different things. I believe there are two different categories of "come up with a solution" to a...

3e was pretty dominant, and ‘lowest level possible’ is not zero. That WotC then dropped the ball and released a 4e without OGL didn’t...

If your goal is to reduce the number of game systems out there in favor of D&D . . . I think the "how" you go about it is important. I...

"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...

So, unless you look at the fundamental differences in what is being asked of the technology in these different use-cases, you will fail...

Me, too! That's exactly how I might roleplay a low-Wisdom character. Which might seem contradictory, but I'm not against roleplaying...

Yes. He made the classic management mistake of badly underestimating the difficulty of the job being done by his staff. He then...

Look... I like D&D, I liked 3E, I like 5E, I think the OGL was generally good for the community and the CC is even better... However, I...

I never got that far in my GoSM run, because Covid killed in-person gaming at the store. But I had transplanted the entire adventure to...

The most recent version of Psion is a spellcaster, so the spells have the typical components. But the class itself has this provision...