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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...

Beneath the peaks of the mountains, a trade route vanished when a sudden blizzard came out of nowhere. When caravans failed to return...

I always felt that there might be a bit too many imbalanced combinations, but maybe that isn't a real problem if you're considering them...

Presumably him and others who don't want to play Torchbearer. Its still not an obviously excessive assumption, given the market.

I'm sure your enemies prefer your ambush to go pear-shaped.

Not mine, or at least not combinations of things. Like, nobody feels like they own fireball or spiritual guardians, so everyone uses a...

Honestly, I think the Daggerheart engine is a much better fit for Sci-Fantasy than 5e. I ran a baller one shot with that theme, but the...

He did say, "a lot of us" though. Who is "us" in this scenario?

Well, I think "a lot" is broad enough it can be viewed as accurate, or presumably more people would be playing Torchbearer. They didn't...

Well, at least in part that's because even the social bandwidth that goes between the two characters is not full; there are a lot of...

There are certainly games that don't wall off the effect of social skill rolls as only applying to NPCs. Some of them have more...

I would be fine with that providing the same method applied to PCs attempting to intimidate NPCs.

Well, I think "a lot" is broad enough it can be viewed as accurate, or presumably more people would be playing Torchbearer. They didn't...

That is definitely a temptation. One I'd hope Players try to avoid in my games. I can definitely see the logic in placing restrictions...