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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...

I liked this one. It and The Thing are pretty much the only movies in the genre I have seen more than once.

Aweful lot of people literally saying it is a new edition that "wotc just won't admit is a new edition", for me to even consider taking...

I don't mind the x.5 moniker for a revision, I just think it's terrible for an edition that already starts with a 5. Every time I've...

I've used drow as shoot and scoot with 120' darkvision. Basically early combat is initiative, mid combat surprise round, late combat...

You gotta be kidding me with this. A book with some new options, even including optional variants of existing things, is not even a...

I think the niches can't be fighting, spellcasting, social and exploration, unless you really reduce the complexity of each system...

Exactly. "Simple" isn't the same thing as "true" or "the best way to go", it is just easy to understand. Lots of stuff that is...

Even in grid-less, mini-less games that is not true for some people. I find it absolutely torturous when a player sits there going...

The more someone rants about how something is objectively true about roleplaying games, the more ridiculous they sound.

I liked this one. It and The Thing are pretty much the only movies in the genre I have seen more than once.

This is what I disagree with. I think the "what" is more important than the "how". A frontliner can fight using pure martial badassery...

Yeah. What I said. Yeah. And the enchantment will have them bump against the wall. Yeah. I see that you are not seeing it. So whatever.