The Tao of D&D

Taking up this matter further . A person might ask, "Why does it even matter?  Why not just let the baby have his bottle?" I'm...

Reading over this section , I see immediately why I embraced it so hard and why Gygax's argument against using monsters as player charac...

As I work my way through the wiki, with some of my focus on shifting over old content and some on making what's needed, I can't he...

[You can read today's post on the Higher Path here ] I've written about this several times, historically here , that being my mo...

In the halcyon days of my youth, mostly during university, I spent hundreds of hours sitting in writers' groups and literary discussion ...

Also known as mearas , an unusual breed of wild horses, the largest of which are chosen by a benevolent holy spirit called a luris , or b...

I've been exploring a rework of my character background generation system, and that has led me to the above picture.  This is based o...

My personal feeling is that if a new player joins an ongoing campaign, where the existing players are of much higher level, that new player ...

I wonder if someone who has been a DM as long as I have, without much playing, should give any advice about rolling up a character. I’ve wa...

Continuing with yesterday's post , I'd like to expand some of my points about character, discussing what a character is , as opposed...

Before I begin, I am deeply conscious that this post might be taken for an argument.  That is not my intention.  Instead, I wish to express ...

Enough of this negativity .  Let's get down to unsolicited advice.  Before we can get our characters going, we have to pick spells, abil...