In an attempt to make RPG characters mechanically unique, there was a trend in the early years to include lists of disadvantages you could t...

Ok, yeah, I think I understand. Controversy is scary, and I can’t imagine that OneBookShelf isn’t living close to the bone. Still... F...

Are you familiar with the Garden of Eden trap? It’s a way to short-circuit adventures before they really begin. Basically, it works like ...

As Venger Satanis has pointed out, we're a now a year on from the release of 5e's PHB. He's curious to hear how people feel ab...

If you listen to this interview with Mike Mearls at GenCon, you’ll hear the latest on third-party licensing for D&D 5e. The fun starts...

Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque has tackled the question, “What makes a monster interesting?” The answer provided is the old stand...

Blue Rose is now a-Kickstarter-ing . As promised, they've dropped the (justly praised) True20 mechanics for their new AGE rule set. I ...

Mad Max: Fury Road is, in spite of all the hoopla to the contrary, exactly what it says it is on the tin, and lots of it. Intense car cha...

So, Blue Rose is possibly returning . I suspect it will make its Kickstarter target. This isn't Green Ronin's first rodeo, after ...

Nobody in this industry has any idea how to do this. This isn't the condemnation it might seem at first. Yes, there appears to be way...

Part of Mearls’ talk at GAMA was supposed to be about the future of RPGs. He ended up not having a lot of time to get into that (and I’d fo...

Mike Mearls gave a talk on RPG design at the GAMA trade show on Tuesday afternoon. Much of it was based on the playtest for 5e, so keep tha...

Joe Kushner of the blog Appendix N isn't happy with the support WotC has given 5e: Wizards of the Coast just released something calle...

The succubus of 1e AD&D is the stuff of jokes because of the picture. Still, she was a classic femme fatale, able to lure the innocent ...

Or, 10 Random Facts About Kyma. Kiel Chenier suggested we share ten “random” facts about our campaigns that make them unique . The camp...

Just added a new artist to my art links on the right: Brandon Liao . His work has a very Numenera-ish feel to me, a sort of '70s-80s-e...

Angry’s got a pretty good rant (or, rather, how-to) on exposition . Suffice it to say, your best world-showing probably happens in the game...

Mr. Robertson has been contemplating urban adventures lately after flipping through the 1e DMG’s urban random encounters table (you know, th...

I haven’t heard. I have heard scuttlebutt that they’re still trying to figure it out, and I suspect that’s the case. Magazines aren’t the ...

Fine, fine, yeah, I'm on it . But really, what's there to say? "There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?" ...