The Tao of D&D

It isn’t possible for me to remain completely divorced from politics; I’ve struggled to keep politics from this blog and I think I’ve done a...

Timothy Brannan and I don't get along.  I don't think there's resentment on his part; I can't say. He's commented on th...

Good day. I’ll start with apologies for the trouble that disrupted the last class. Let’s begin again by first re-examining some of the thi...

Today I would like to share three great posts with you from three great writers in the role-playing blog genre, each of whom is on a quest...

“The adventure is the heart of the game, a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. An adventure might be created by the Dungeon Mast...

It is hard to stop on any journey and realize that to go further on, we will have to forsake the route we've taken and retrace our steps...

"The game uses polyhedral dice with different numbers of sides. You can find dice like these in game stores and in many bookstores. ...

This is sort of human.  Doesn't really need it's own monster page. About writing these monster descriptions.  I've been cons...

This post includes significant contributions from Tim Alberdingk Thijm. Thank you Tim. These terrifying, immense frogs are known to inha...

This, as most of you will know from having seen them before, is a 360-degree video: I draw your attention to it because of a comment tha...

So here we are on page 6 of the 5th Edition Player's Handbook.  The heading reads, "Using This Book" ~ but in fact, the ...

Update: after much consideration, I am no longer considering this post to be part of the RPG 201 syllabus.  While I stand by all that's...