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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...

Yes, the reverse is also true. Attempts to intimidate are not fear spells. Attempts to know if somebody is lying are not detect lie...

Once again, I think the solution to that is: 1) The player doesn't actually know what the NPC is. Leverage that doubt to try to...

I wouldn't say it can't be true, that's just the risk of performing the fiction before the dice roll. I'd say that I've seen three...

I would have thought the bolded was a non-negotiable fact of life. You declare it, you do it. No take-backs. Even more so in older...

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

There's a surprisingly short distance between the two bolded bits here, at least in my eyes. The very term"cinematic combat" brings to...

Like it or not, though, the rules to a large extent determine the types of decisions the PCs (and by extension, their players) are...

1) the PCs and NPCs are not the same. 2) The GM can ignore such effect if they want.

Sure, you allow the character to try whatever they want and think whatever they want and then if they run into a situation where...

But GM can ignore such effect when it suits them too. The GM can just decide, that Lord Dreadskull of the Death Knights of Inconvenient...

And what I'm saying is that if NPCs cannot use social skills to hyperbolically "mind control" PCs, then I think the reverse should also...

Honestly, they are not. The player's sole focus is on their character, they probably have a elaborate backstory, they have been played...

i very much disagree with this playstyle of 'my character will always think exactly and only what i want them to think, that i have...