Category: TTRPG
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Today's my birthday! To celebrate, Wizards of the Coast were kind enough to release the all new 2024 edition of the Player's Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons. But what's even cooler is that today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the day I first played D&D. Way back in 1984, I didn't really know what…
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I just so happens that I do a pretty good Ian-McKellen-as-Gandalf imitation. I also have a not-half-bad Sean Connery, an okay Marlon Brando, a passable Patrick Stewart, a poor but at least consistent Clint Eastwood, and a laughable attempt at a Harrison Ford. All of these amateur impressions were useful to me more than ten…
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Back in the summer I mentioned that I had submitted an entry to the One Page Dungeon Contest, which challenges creators to make a table top RPG adventure or dungeon entirely contained to a single page. Of course, I thought 'one page?, pffff… that sounds easy.' Turns out, not so much. On top of that,…
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Years ago, I used to do a lot of tabletop RPG gaming. I played almost every weekend for probably about 15 years from the time I joined my first real D&D group as part of a high school club in 1986 (yes, exactly like in Stranger Things), until I moved to Montreal in 2001 to…






This is still an interesting read. But for me it was far simpler than this: The game’s narrative tries to…