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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...

I like multiple different things in my cities. At one end, you have Ptolus, which is a maximalist city setting, which hundreds of...

As a GM, I prefer systems where I'm not required to set the difficulty of a task of players according to some arbitrary number of...

I really like die pool systems. Adding and subtracting dice is nice tactile way to handle modifiers. Better yet, I like die pool systems...

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

Your outline above sounds good, and coming from the OSR-adjacent direction I think you’re already primed to go usable information dense...

Absolutely. A thing i have consudered in my own work is having a set of iconic characters, and giving 1-3 sentence descriptions of...

By the rules as written (RAW), 2024 Player's Handbook page 26: "You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when...

Difficulties are Static. Works well in "Bounded Accuracy" 5e, but works in all the other editions too, where the adventurers simply get...

A supplement that provides a ready-to-run location, a partially generated locations, or a toolbox to build-it-yourself? Advice on how...

I would replace storytelling with engagement with the setting, but otherwise I agree.

Honest question: who is demanding that? Like, actually want the game to have no consequences at all for player actions?

Rumor is that it was an orc, but it was pie.

Depends on what the PCs (who we are paying the most attention to during active play) are doing with their time. If the PCs choose to...

Yeah, there are companies that charge more, letting one think they're higher quality, but are just rip-off artists. It definitely takes...