About a week ago as I was falling asleep I somehow thought up a mini-game centered on how to start your next RPG campaign. Short description: A player declares a genre and each player gets six cards (two verbs and …

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(Plus shipping.) The Overview of Tabletop RPGs Isometric Map Poster was posted on Reddit recently, and it attracted a lot of interest.  I posted a code there to get it for under $5 (plus shipping.)  I’d like to make that …

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Joseph Bloch is back with his latest volume in a series of books that imagines–based on Gary Gygax’s public comments and articles–what AD&D 2E might have been like. (So I personally like to think of it as 1.5E.) The new …

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While playing Munchkin a couple of weeks ago, a player got a “half-breed” card which lets him combine any two races.  Then it hit me: why does D&D (and Pathfinder, etc.) only list half-elf and half-orc as possible half-breeds? Why …

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