This was made a while ago, and it is still relevant. It’s about the experience OF gaming, not the kind you get FROM the game. It’s a doco about the PEOPLE who game, and not about the game itself, though […]
Introduction I have been gaming a long time, and I have seen and played in a lot of different systems, some good some not so good. As games have changed over time, and new games came out, new systems, each […]
In the mid to late 70s, as D&D was starting out, they (TSR) were already producing supplements to the base game, and in ONE of those books was a brilliant system to add reality to the combats. When you watch […]
From early on TSR had a couple of magazines they were publishing; one was Dragon, and the other was Dungeon. In 1980 Dragon issue #38 released a set of tables for upping the stakes of critical hits and critical fails. […]
So one of the guys in the Filthy Pig was having an issue with the SRD5 sheet, specifically trying to get his attack to add the Curse damage (his Proficiency Bonus) to the final result. While he had done this […]
So, in the interest of trying to make everyone’s experience at the gaming table better and better, it came to mind that there is one thing that should be addressed, because there are a LOT of people out there that […]
So I was in a Discord server last night, when one of the other members was looking at how to do a macro up for the cantrip “Toll the Dead”. This cantrip is interesting for one reason, it’s modified by the […]
Well I went and did something that might help a lot of people who want to run games. I have decided to run a virtual DM, GM pseudo conference – meeting style gathering for current and future DMs, GMs and […]
Alignments are subjective, and are how they interact with D&D has many people seeing them differently, and so as such in how they act. Others (like me) use it more as an abstract tool for narration, and as a record […]
So recently I got to play some Cyberpunk 2020 again, and it has been AGES. But it’s cool. I am playing a gunslinger, based on the old west. A South-African who grew up watching Terrance Hill and Bud Spencer films. […]
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