The Tao of D&D

Let's take some time and clear everything off the game table ... books, dice, rules, the DM, what specific game we're playing, every...

From the wiki : To understand this part of the character's generation, the reader must start from the heading, Progenitors .  The progen...

One of the more fascinating sage abilities, with an unusual and player-friendly benefit: The overall structure is game-building because it ...

So here's a screen shot from a video that I just put on the blog.  The speaker is Dan Pink , who's a presenter of documentaries and...

I'm watching a lot of D&D advice videos, making myself sit through content, parsing it so I can write further posts on how the comm...

In not very long, I'm going to be moving the campaign chatter right off this blog.  Here is the plan. I'm going to create a second...

Several days ago , BaronOpal was able to impress into my thick head some of his reasons for resisting a character of his having a background...

I wanted to write a note about a result I'm incorporating into my intelligence table - a result that has a chance of being picked up by ...

When I last worked on my character generator, I felt I was pushing the limits on my creativity.  In reality, however, that was only the l...

I was shown a new trick with excel exactly a week ago and it gave me the motivation to do some work in excel programming this week - namely,...

As a second post on mass combat , I'd like to talk about time. Over the years, I have settled on 12 seconds as the appropriate time fo...

We've all seen it.  The player that decides, "My character is an asshole," then sets out to justify every bad thing they do fr...

I was asked why yesterday that I had been dead set against 'sage abilities' for fighters, but that my plans now included them.  I fe...

Well.  Time to step up, dump AD&D and change the rules. Some of you know I haven't played the straight AD&D combat system in a...

There are going to be a few of my long-time readers who won't like that last post at all, who shake their heads wondering why I write th...