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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 use the character sheet from the PHB, but that's just page one of the folder I assemble for each PC. There's also a "class abilities...

My likes and dislikes are all about how gameable that material is. You need some exposition for context but past a certain point its...

you mean 29.99, because most of the time things are not in sale… agreed, but if you want to play the game, you need the core books...

I think you've lost the plot here. They are clearly not the same game or else there would not be a revision to talk about, and you admit...

Why bring it up then? So until now, everything is fine. Let's hope it stays that way.

I’m curious that with my example you resort to RAI, admitting that RAW the spell does not require the target to try to get as far away...

Have you tried Draw Steel yet? I haven’t personally played 4e but from what I understand it’s a bit of a spiritual successor and I can...

In Sundered Isles (Ironsworn: Starforged expansion), there is an optional rule that (I think) does exactly what you are talking about...

My favorite core dice mechanic, even thought I've tired of almost everything else in the system, is from The One Ring. d12 + Nd6, where...

I wasn’t aware that terrain, movement and positioning had been absent from any edition of the game. Also, BG3.

Yeah as much as I enjoy Draw Steel they made some questionable design choices with their Heroes book. It feels like they never had...

I'd like to echo @Whizbang Dustyboots' point about different levels of depth. And I think what's "best" is going to come down to the...

The $10 Delian Tomb adventure is a level 1-3 starter adventure for Draw Steel that includes all the rules you need to run the first 3...