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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...

These rules were removed from paladins for a very good reason. Those being that they actively encouraged bad DMing and negative play...

I don't do that but I have had a dragon take the mule of a 2nd level party as they made camp. They didn't lose any important gear as it...

Great blogpost. There’s two ways I’ve baked fear into my 5E game. 1. Roll initiative every round: A D6 gets rolled by one of the...

Usually they're either fillable PDF sheets (you can bake some calculations into those) or spreadsheets. The problem with both is making...

This sounds a little bit like an electronic version of the Lost Worlds or Ace of Aces book games. Or maybe Metagaming’s Microquests for...

If psionics didn't have verbal, somatic and material components, what would its' use look like during a game session? It wouldn't be two...

Spock reading thoughts required somatic components (particular gestures touching the face), and his transfer of his Katra to McCoy in...

Sam Raimi’s classic is a 73 olds delta 88.

If anyone is purely mental, it's all of us here who were hoping for a different resource system for psionics in 5E.

2nd edition had my favourite psionic system but even that had balance issues. Dark Sun handled it well but I think that's simply because...

Far from the worst of all worlds. A tiny minority of players hate it, a plurality would like somwthing more different but only if it...

I left out the part where steeds, being int 6+ and who understand language, can attune magic items. You need an item that can be used...

That happens to me too. Sometimes, right in the middle of painting, a body part might fall off because it really wasn't glued together...