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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Running any free event at a public library is an act of local heroism; running a weekly Dungeons & Dragons...

OMG, we're parsing the actual text of LOTR like it's an RPG. Shark. Us. Lots of awkward jumping.

Im not defending the status quo. 5e designed Races and then Species with too low a budget and made the forced +2/+1 and +2/+2/-2 handlr...

You've seriously misinterpreted the rules... or ignored the pacing rules. Most rolls are only difficulty 2 or 3 if you're actually using...

5e was too afraid to outright say which effects were supposed to be gated behind a tier. I don't know if this was because they wanted...

Imperialistic mimics disguised as footstools.

Excellent post and I agree with it mostly (though I don't find tests, vs, conflicts, or complex obstacles which basically entail linked...

From the rules From what the players done From your previous rulings Extrapolation from pre existing things A setting Bible Making sure...

That's an excellent list, but I'd recommend adding/substituting in Goods and Gear: The Ultimate Adventurer's Guide (affiliate link) from...

No one mess with Umbran's Tolkien scholarship. Angry hobbits with nobbly clubs will pour out of every nearby thread to treat you badly.

I like the idea of taking one of the more over the top comics / characters like Green Lantern and doing a quite literally ‘down to...

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I remember being confused by the constitution bonus for multiclass warriors, I don't I think at the time we weren't doing it right, we...

Except of course the best of them, Sam, who was just a gardener.

On "player agency" in BW, the following is from pp 9-11 of BW Gold Revised (almost the same text can be found in Revised, pp 12-14): In...