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Crushing the Crunch

Let’s make this clear right up front: I’m no fan of “crunchy” tabletop roleplaying games. I have a ton of them, mostly older games in my collection, but they aren’t my favorites. In the last year or so, I have discovered “Powered by the Apocalypse”-style games, which really got me focused on “rules-lite” TTRPG systems. […]

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Halloween in May?

Episode #31 – Today we’re talking about “Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft”, and providing a correction to last week’s show regarding “Diablo Immortal”. Intro (0:50) – Our week, in brief. Main Topic (3:38) – There’s another official book for D&D coming this May! Let’s talk about it! Video Game News (18:20) – Correction for last […]

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Settling

If you’re a fan of “Dungeons & Dragons” 5th edition, you probably won’t like this article much. Just saying. For the rest of you, this will likely be a bit of “Preaching to the Choir”, but it is something I feel needs to be said: In short, D&D is a bad example of Tabletop Rolelaying […]