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In response to my previous post about the possibilities of the avaricious taking advantage of the existence of a traditional megadungeon, someone wrote: …stuff comes OUT of wild dungeons, right? To, you know, feed on stuff, like merchants stupid enough Read More
I’ve got to say, I am one of those DM’s who never thinks to include scrolls in treasure hordes. It was an act of conscious will that I remembered to include them in Castle of the Mad Archmage, but they’re Read More
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is on the subject of how to teach new gamers to play. I thought I’d focus on the utility of so-called “quick start” rules. When you have a large and complex game such as D&D, Read More
I’ve been toying around with substituting multiple d6’s for percentile dice in some situations, so I naturally needed to know the probabilies of throwing any given number or less with d6’s. Here are the numbers, just in case anyone else Read More
Rjstreet over at Purple Pawn has a great article analyzing Games Workshop’s financial performance. That got me thinking about the nature of the business model of the role-playing game industry. Games Workshop has a model that presupposes that their customers Read More
One of the rules I regularly ignore in AD&D is the notion of “system shock survival”. This is a rule that states, essentially, when one’s physical system undergoes a drastic shock (such as when the character is polymorphed, turned to Read More
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