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It's my number one advice on anything trap-related: reverse psychology. Common sense tells us the players are after the loot, and it's secured by well-hidden traps. Well, if you spring a trap you only got the one moment of discovery. Suspense is a much better dynamic at a gaming table. Put the...

I see myself returning to AD&D 2 from time to time for purely nostalgic reasons. Being my first contact with D&D, to me it feels the most like what D&D "is". But I also recognize that this is completely arbitrary and that every generation has their own D&D, or even multiple D&Ds. It's different...

My old people sometimes ask about "that RPG stuff you do". I had them visiting one of my tabletop RPGs a couple of times, they enjoyed the fantasy and story aspects but showed little interest in playing in a group themselves. So I thought about gifting them a cRPG they can play to really...

Breaking news from Ikol, our trusted insider source at WotC! The upcoming installment of D&D will supposedly feature a new game mechanic that could forever change the landscape of Dungeons & Dragons gameplay. Let me give you a quick rundown: According to Ikol, OneD&D will introduce a...

When designing new systems or homebrewing existing ones, one of the areas where I still often question both my experience and my gut feelings are the target values for average chances of success on a given roll. One thing I've been doing for a long time now is use a simple matrix that always...

My current campaign embraces hijinx and chaos a bit more than usual, so I wanted nat 20s and 1s to have effects on skill use, too. I'm sure many people have done that before, so there must be cool tables for that out there to adapt. I'm running 4e, but tables for every edition are welcome, I'll...

Disclaimer: I'm biased towards D&D 4e as my system of choice, but I think this topic really concerns D&D in general and D20 systems as a whole. I enjoy the smooth bell curve results of using double dice in many other systems. I'm sure you can't just replace the D20 in D&D with 2D10 without...

Hey friends, my group are diehard 4e fans and we've been churning through lots of adventures over the years and still not getting enough of it. As we'll be playing this edition for many more years to come as it seems, I wanted to set up a thread where I can list all the classes ever released...