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A new year means new books! I’ll start us off with a copy of Drs. Morris Weiss and W. Paul McKinney’s folio from the year 2000 that I very recently polished off, The Traveler’s Vest Pocket Medical Guide. I picked this up a while back for a […]

Check out our 20th newsletter, which includes all of the latest additions to the Solo RPG List. Includes: dating, Cthulhu, frogs, mechs, horrors, spaceships, maps and much more! Discover amazing Solo and Duet TTRPGs that can be played with—or […]

So I had this situation last night when a player got upset because he felt the party was being "railroaded" and I take issue with his definition. I set up the adventure in which the party is stuck in the Faewild after the Winter Court stages a coup […]

The Gestalt Characters variant rules were probably--don't @ me-- the most notorious and most long-lasting legacy of the 3.5 version of Unearthed Arcana. An admittedly and unabashedly high-power variant, they allowed players to combine two (or more, […]

I went through my DM thought process this week and asked myself: why do I think keeping my PCs afraid is so important? Here’s what I came up with: Landscapes of Fear; or, How to […]

I've had trouble with warlocks all through 5e, and I could use some insights from other folk. Maybe I just need the discussion. I've been playing and running since AD&D, so I have solid ideas of what the strictures of a cleric and paladin […]

Been reading Nimble 2e and wrote up a short partial review (part 1, “the roses”): Big standouts so far: Tense combat: No-to-hit rolls, exploding damage, miss on a 1 Tactical 3-action turns with real choices Monsters look easy to run, yet […]

World of Kulan: Crisis in Bluffside Game ​Big Tim stands, once again, waiting. This time, however, the man he's come to know as Relgar Aspergim waits with him — not that drafter-wizard appears put out by waiting. He has a book to scribble in and […]

I was watching this and was reminded that there were a great many mounted archers through history. In fact, I seem to recall Egyptians had chariot archers. I can't recall, off hand, any sort of mounted archer in either 5e or Level Up. Part of the […]