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Managing a table of ten players is less like storytelling and more like air traffic control. In the heat of my weekly library sessions...

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...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. In the world of public library gaming, overbooking is more than a strategy; it is a survival mechanism...

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

That's not a moral relativst argument, it's a consequentialist one. But it's a pretty weak one. It totally fails in terms of rules...

It's not a single action! He's continuing to imprison and gaslight the victim! This is an ongoing choice!

This week.

But both paladin and ranger are (in 5e) half casters. They are mechanically distinct from the classes you mention. (Of course some...

I prefer letting them get extra attacks at the normal levels but give them extra Reactions or Bonus Actions at levels 6 and 14. And...

Wow, I wasn't expecting so much discussion from this thought exercise. I don't have the time or patience right now to collect citations...

Especially since PF1 already has a number of hybrid classes such as the Arcanist (Wizard/Sorcerer), Brawler (Fighter/Monk), Slayer...

It certainly wouldn’t be the only class that was “too close” to other classes. One could make the argument that a Paladin should be a...

Absolutely true; But that narrative is better supported by continuity that prevents their acts from coming across as Deus-Ex-Machina...

I think the point being made, is that when the authors are frequently retconning the cababilities of the characters, there is little...