So “Dungeons & Dragons”, as we currently know it, is in its waning days. In September, the Players Handbook, the first of the three core rulebooks for the 2024 edition of D&D, will be released. Yes, I know “Wizards of the Coast” insists this is just an update to the current 5th edition rules from […]
Tag: Tabletop Roleplaying Games
The Truth about D&D
I’ll make this short and sweet: “Dungeons & Dragons” is the greatest roleplaying game on the market. They won. It’s over, and the competition never really had a chance. That’s it. As much as I love independent roleplaying games, and want to see them succeed, it should be obvious to everyone now that there really […]
Overthinking Things
As many of you already know, I’m a bit of an amateur game designer for tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). I’ve created quite a few games over the years, but only self-published one, back in the long-ago days before Amazon and DriveThruRPG. It didn’t do very well. Regardless, this is a bit of a passion of […]
I have enough TTRPGs, anyway
So, as longtime readers of this site will already know, I own a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That’s actually a bit of an understatement, to be honest, since I know a lot of people might consider owning 20-odd different TTRPGs as a sizable collection. Normally, I would agree with that assessment, except that mine […]
What TTRPG could be remade to emulate “The Secret World”?
Yes, yes, I know… There is already a tabletop roleplaying game in development, based upon the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, “The Secret World”. But – and this is a big but – there are a lot of issues people have with that TTRPG (mostly that it is based upon the 5E D&D ruleset), and […]
Give Thanks with some Holiday Roleplaying!
Thanksgiving arrives tomorrow, and no matter what you might think about the troublesome history of the holiday itself, let’s be honest – At least here in the US of A, we’re staring down the barrel of a nice, long weekend. Unfortunately, that weekend will likely be spent crowded in visiting with family, which for many […]