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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...

Generally, I like roll-under, because it seems most straight-forward to me. My score directly tells me my success range, without any...

I like a lot of 2024 MM material and use it. I also still like a lot of 2014 MM material and still use that too. I also like a lot of...

after the Sworn Soldier series, I couldn't get enough of Kingfisher so I've read "The Hollow Places" The characters are not as good as...

As a one time thing for a campaign, fine. Wouldn’t repeat that same exact scenario though.

*Attempted. They were warned, and the target was random. I think you did that right. The characters are going to be jumping at...

So a CR 8 has CP budget of 3900 for a party of 5 with medium xp on that level being 750 this is medium encounter sure, but surprise does...

So at lvl 4 the PCs foiled the plans of a Shade. They watched her via a communication device dispatch an assassin and dark justicier to...

Totally ok. No one died, but it was tense. Giving enemies species encounters is fair game to me and should have been the advice in...

NPC revenge is great and makes sense in the fiction...but care must be taken. The dice made it work for the narrative you were hoping to...

So far Empire seems more funny? I was expecting it to be darker than Star Wars because the movie was darker in tone. I haven't gotten to...

So, it then becomes an element on the "wandering damage chart". I don't know if it acted logically in this situation. If the...

If you use adventure books and the like, it is far easier to find things alphabetically. The only ones that tripped me up so far have...

You don’t have to use actual assassin stat block! So long as they use hand crossbows and wear black they will do the job. Since the role...