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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...

Havent followed this at all, but the Neopets I remember from 25 years ago definitely wouldn’t have featured fighting bandits or any...

It's a bit hacky, but I use three things: * I'm testing the DM material, so the players are using 5e characters. That makes it far...

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

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...

I've been so happy using Maps as my VTT. The existing scripting for homebrew is great, and excited to see things getting better.

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

To be fair, considering how many players tend to be combat focused, a combat heavy initial play test release seems OK. But best to skip...

Havent followed this at all, but the Neopets I remember from 25 years ago definitely wouldn’t have featured fighting bandits or any...

Making Rime of the Frostmaiden as an Icewind Dale sequel would work well from a marketing perspective, and the early to mid game has a...

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...

Imagine how much the 'nailgun' does for wooden house building and renovation, if you give that same tool to the average person, they...

But you do see how saying "the problem is competitive systems" (talking about the the problem of RPGs in general), taken together with...

Jay-Den and Professor Reno are the standout characters, for me. That speech they gave Jay-Den was perfect and well delivered, and Reno...