The Tao of D&D

I'm sure most of my readers will remember that old D&D included the concept of reaching "name level," where the players ...

What follows are definitions of measurements, objects and units that are standardized in my game world, particularly for use with my equipme...

Traps are a fetish. Earlier today, Dennis Laffey posted about them , citing a few comments from this blog.  There he discusses the logic o...

Yesterday I had a skin mole on my back.  Today I don't.  I had a doctor at the nearby clinic cut it off, freezing it with some anestheti...

Fiction writing can be more absorbing than any other sort of writing I do.  I can begin a passage at five or six o'clock in the evenin...

There's less and less reason to post on a Saturday; my numbers fall, people who read me are playing D&D, it makes more sense for me ...

My daughter asked me last week to rework the action points system on my wiki, which proved a long and unpleasant task.  I finished that Wed...

This is pretty cool: The source is listed as The Angus Maddison Project & World Bank , so I have my doubts, particularly in that sev...

Having cleared my thoughts of misgivings, let's tackle the matter of conversation . Let us set the scene.  A group of players in the...

Following a long conversation with JB in the last post , I find myself thinking that there must be room for the amount of charisma that a ch...

"Looking back at your posts from this time last year, I wonder if there's some way to use the character of a block to drive the t...

Charisma reaction adjustments, Player's Handbook, p. 13: -5% per point of charisma below 8; +5% per point of charisma above 12. The...