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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...

My thought too. NPCs should behave in a way that makes sense, and jumping solo into the middle of a group enemies does not. A lone...

A fireball would have been quicker.😇

I suspect that's inevitable in the exception based design space the D20 sphere fills. It was even true in D&D 4e from what I saw of it...

Did you consider that you might be putting too much pressure on your players to optimise every last ounce out of the mechanics? For...

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

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

A little background: I have been having some recent "wake up call" cardiac situations, which has motivated me to finally take some...

A fireball would have been quicker.😇

I am also making my own system right now and I am striving for minimal computation during play, fast play with good flow intuitive and...

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...