It's been a while now that my D&D-style games have used a single saving throw. Original D&D's saving throws, with their more...

I've been thinking for a while now about the excessive multiplication of magic items in D&D.  Whether through random tables or offic...

I've spent a lot of time trying to finish this table. Probably too much time, honestly. It’s one of those things that works exactly as I...

As I’ve said before , I usually don’t like fumbles or critical failures in combat, at least in more "serious" campaigns; they make...

The myth of the "good GM is required to play" is an old tale in our hobby. I thought the myth had been laid to rest, but it is oft...

Most of the planet's inhabitants live in small enclaves: hamlets, villages, and isolated settlements, separated from one another by vast...

I have wondered many times (and even tried to investigate as best I could) why Clark Ashton Smith is not in the Appendix N . Not only becaus...