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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...

Iomandra by Perkins would have been amazing. For example.

Nentir Vale was/is indeed a great setting.

I prefer the more granular nature of the skill list, so you can model specifically what the character knows and is good at, since not...

Counterpoint: the Scream franchise is clearly in the horror genre but absolutely bucked the trend of weak protagonists and immortal...

Honestly, that's probably the next step for Radiant Citadel. Put more meat on all the existing bones. Or just take one of the settings...

None of that conflicts with the approach to skills that I have been advocating, although neither are they necessarily identical. I will...

I think the bolded steps are the place where a well designed skill system can come in and meaningfully change gameplay. The downsides...

I’ve seen the “Combat as War vs. Combat as Sport” framework come up a lot in TTRPG discussions, and I think it’s a very useful...

I just finished watching Boss, with Kelsey Grammer as the mayor of Chicago. It was pretty good, obviously the idea that an American...

I mean, I would probably buy a new setting (and I haven't bought a WotC product myself in 6 years). I like new stuff! But I think 5e...

Step 3: Prophet!

I sign a lot of stuff for work so I tend to just use my three initials, cursive but legible. For legal documents I tend to use my first...

This is in response to @SlyFlourish new video. Here is a link with a time stamp of 31:14 where the discussion starts: Since I am one...