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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...

When running other people's adventures, which I like to do, this results in a lot of the content (except combat) essentially being...

The base Monk Class changes seem to make the central Schick fairly redundant. I wouldn't be surprised if they do revisit it, though...

Outside of the Western games already cited? Given my preferences for HERO & other toolbox systems, that’s the path I’d take. Most of...

I won't ever give that kind of behavior a pass because of the damage it does to our community. We all know anger gets clicks, because...

I thgink we safely say at this point that video games have a pretty significant effect on how people understand, consume, and enjoy TTRPGs.

I like point buy, classless systems. They let players build the character they want. If a player wants to have a character who can pick...

This used to annoy me until Professor DM did a great rebuttal video, walking through details on how Youtube algorithms force click-bait...

In a thread that seems mostly about trying to justify/rationalise not having to pay artists for their work, casually associating artists...

In terms of old school play time wasted is a valuable and measurable resource. Far less so in newer versions of D&D or Pathfinder.

You said, "My initial reaction is that the process doesn't matter, that it's the result that counts..." That is an "end justify the...

I just finished Twentieth Anniversary Screening, a novella by Jeff Strand that earned him a Bram Stoker Award. It’s crazy short but won...

We've just finished "Sleep Ye Cursed Child". One member of my players' party, a glimmerskin halfling cleric named Thassalar Whitrumble...

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5E is a massively different beast to the early days. Not only do hirelings just, not exist at all, but player death is rare enough in...