The Tao of D&D

The Discord D&D game took place on Friday and it's now Sunday evening as I write this. I agreed that it would be a good idea to disc...

For those who may not know, a "sensitivity reader" is a person hired by an author or publisher to review a manuscript for portraya...

As I said in the last post, I'm planning on running D&D this Friday. I have no definite story in mind, but I do have a few set piece...

Starting to get my ducks in a row; the plan for the "discord campaign" is a soft start around 6 to 7 EST... I think we're goin...

Seeing a number of videos about writing and culture lately, of which the one below is perhaps the best example, I'm encountering a stran...

There have been some changes. Because I'm a stupid kitten who is mollified by shiny objects, I've let some of the patreon supporters...

In this part two post about affordances, part 1 here , I'll use three more basic games as structural models for a different approach to ...

Sort of catching my breath today. Moved over to working on the March Lantern, which will probably be late, not because of this work this mon...

As I wade into the thief and search the DMG for details about traps, I ran across this: "Assume that your players are continually wasti...

Not about the paladin this time: Detect evil, up to 60 ft. away. The rules expressly tell that this is something that's done when the pl...

Saturday and there aren't a lot of readers about anyway... so I'll just scratch an itch. Not going to talk about D&D. I married ...

This effort to teach AD&D in a linear fashion has hit a snag with the paladin.  First, it took me three passes to find the right voice f...