What we call campaigns in 2023 are anything but. The term is an anachronism, carried over from the war gaming roots of roleplaying games (RPGs) when characters were soldiers with personalities. Campaigns are long-term military plans of many missions, which if a roleplaying game is a crusade against a great evil, makes sense. However, that […]
A Brief Historie of the Campaign Read More »
It seems tabletop role playing games always have some device to create chance outcomes, and in particular dice are convenient, portable, and often personalized devices for such occasions. But we might ask why we use them at all given that there are plenty of games with no dice (e.g. chess). Well, we have our reasons,
Dice: what are these sparkly resin gems for? Read More »
We tire of the clickbait headlines supposing that D&D 5E should be replaced with some new game that “fixes everything wrong with 5E.” The conceit in each case is that we, the people who run and play the games, are (1) unsatisfied with D&D 5E, (2) incapable of creatively working around problems ourselves, and (3)
D&D: If there is a 5E killer, it is killer 5E Read More »
