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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...

TSR Inc. published Dragon #102 in October 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features gully dwarves...

I think "reality" is a fools errand, but I think that whatever degree of verisimilitude that the players want in their thematic play is...

To be clear, I don't intend to pick a core mechanic and THEN decide what the game is about. The purpose here is to talk about system in...

And before you quote the law, yea, technically rules are not copyrightable. Tell that to TSR who went after Gary and killed his game...

You are assuming that other than having a reasonably well received edition that benefitted from not being 4e; That WOTC has anything to...

That is what folks in the Magic world call a "Christmasland" outcome, where all the pieces fall together just right. Consider all the...

Well, you can discuss all of those as options.

And, of course, context. When you're trying for some genres and sorts fo settings, you don't so much want a sense of realism as the...

Give me an open-ended resolution system and I'll absolutely do that for you. The question you need to ask is how far down the frequency...

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I love it when I reread a post and notice I've left the word "not" out of a sentence. Because that doesn't change the meaning at all or...

Guess we just have fundamentally different views of how goods product Maps is. You see it is a limited and flawed piece of software, I...

Any idiot can buy armor. Just ask Gendry; he sold armor.

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