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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...

No, I don't. I mean, in terms of reviewer scores, user scores, every common measure. You can pretend things that are trash aren't...

This topic is fascinating and something I think about a lot. I appreciate the insight folks are offering here so I'll add some of my...

Making 4E into a tactics rpg (in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or X-Com) wouldn't be that difficult at all. I mean, not in relation...

What do you mean by "digital stuff"? You mean character builder and VTT? Or actual video games? Because 4e would make an absolutely...

Just a pause to note how we got here. This thread started with a post that is 21 years old, re-posted 8 years ago, then revived again 3...

Mod Note: Folks, this thread is not yet ten pages long, and already getting antagonistic, and not just between the two folks just above...

My genuine apologies. I would swear you had quoted me, but clearly your original post does not do so, and has not been edited...

???? This seems like you want to argue with someone who isn't me. I can argue it very easily, because WotC themselves upped the pace...

I don't mean to say such a book would be better GM advice than stuff we have seen, like Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering or The Lazy...

5Es basic math is more durable, for sure, but we can't use lack of errata as proof of much with 5E because they basically swore a blood...

Yeah it's hard to say re long-term, but I'd bet on late teens through early thirties players rather than early forties to early fifties...

Oh sure! But the trouble is that happens all the time when the conditions are right. 5E has two big things going for it - it's...

But they directly attach themselves to the core mechanics of a game. They are not options - they are choices that must be made. And it...