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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’m a simple 2D6 man. Add a stat and/or skill mod and go.

Working in a browser and being printable are not always compatible. PDF forms are preferable, especially since most major web browsers...

When I looked at the math with Daggerheart, I came away liking it a lot in terms of the dice used. I also love the hope/fear as...

Away from the gaming table... Successful yard work with the chainsaw today (finally started feeling comfortable with it a couple times...

It shouldn’t, but yet it still does happen every time 4e comes up, despite how long it has been.

I've recently started playing in a Call of Cthulhu campaign. It's my first time with a d100 roll under system. What I have enjoyed about...

...core mechanic can have a big impact on emulating genre: combat as a fail state, tactical flurry, or heroic showmanship...

I have a monthly game that alternates between Shadowdark and DCC, so that checks out.

Echoing above format, non (5th ed) D&D games being played in person, roughly from most popular: Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl Classics AD&D...

Yeah, CoC is cool that way. In L5R you can spend a Void point (of which you generally have 2-4 available/day) to add an additional d10...

personally i'd probably introduce some kind of psionic equivalent to kryptonite, just being in it's presence has them consume extra...

Drugs, poisons, pain.

Echoing above format, non (5th ed) D&D games being played in person, roughly from most popular: Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl Classics AD&D...