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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...

Players' ability to intuitively judge probability, at least roughly, is definitely important for player agency. And I agree that linear...

For most gamers, and I include most GMs here (those who don’t post in online forums and/or watch YouTube videos about game design), a...

What's the status of TTRPG cons in Europe and the British isles? I'm aware of the PAXes here in America and some big, storied...

I am a firm believer that Gaelic is a prank played on English-speakers.

Theres a dude who may or may not be Karsus in my campaign. PCs have been meeting him since lvl 1. Last seen blowing up a goblin fort...

Having NPCs be the star of the campaign is a big no-no. And yet, people do that all the time. I suppose when you have NPCs with goals...

How to pronounce a word written in Gaelic: Take three letters from the beginning. Take three letters from the end. If the word is longer...

True, but I posit that new players being onboarded aren't reading and consuming the rules but just being told what they need to know to...

I might be wrong (I'm seeing all this second hand on social media) but it's the O2, not WotC, making the announcement today. But I guess...

I've been looking around at this for a hot minute and there's also an opening night event on the 21st. Event description reads: "The...

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...

Yeah, but the trade-off is that it complicates implimentation of other elements of the system crossing over. The old OD&D system using...

Well, I'm on record as saying I don't think this ever serves a particularly good purpose. In particular, of you're just substituting a...