The Tao of D&D

Twice in the last 24 hours I've bumped into someone making the argument that people are more willing to believe something when it is pre...

Something that I have been saying since playing D&D in the early 80s is that a DM  must take his or her self 'out of the loop.'...

I have to appreciate the description, "Half the time that guy's a genius" for its sheer lack of insight.  Naturally, the other...

So last week, writing about following the player's instructions to the letter , there was a side point I'd meant to make but failed ...

Recently, I've seen a number of posts that - as a game design - propose exchanging experience points for things, such as character pres...

Been holidayin' ... but I must write something for this blog, mustn't I?  Thus I am offering this past two months work on the cler...

Screwing around with some treasure tables, I stumbled across that old, old table from the DM's Guide, from Appendix I: Dungeon Dressing,...

"Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in...

It's Christmas end and I'm not feeling well, which is typical for this time of year and is also one of my least favorite things.  Th...

I've completed my spell descriptions for the cleric, all seven levels.  I personally judge that the spell 'ceremony' that appear...

Funny thing. About half the time - and particularly with players in my online campaign - I get a definite opinion about where they'd l...

Up to 7th level cleric spells in my rewrite, I started with Astral Spell, and in short order realized what a lot of bunk it is.  I had alrea...