At high levels in dnd and Pathfinder and similar games, combat takes literal hours to get through. If you only play for a few hours at a time, then there are some game sessions that you're not playing a roleplaying game, but a wargame. You may be roleplaying in the sense that you are using your char...
In January 1960, Fritz Leiber published the novella The Night of the Long Knives in Amazing Science Fiction Stories magazine. I recently read the book, freely available from Project Gutenberg, and this is my review of it. It's so terribly good that I almost don't want to write about it at all,...
I recently saw the movie Fear Street Prom Queen, and this is my review of it. I write movie reviews largely as reminders to myself that I've seen a movie, so there's no serious critique happening here, and this post does contain spoilers for both Fear Street Prom Queen and the lore of Fear Stre...
When I started playing Dungeoneer back in 2014, I correctly assumed that you were meant to add your Movement attribute to Movement Threat checks. I made this assumption because you added your other 2 attributes (Melee and Magic) to checks related to them. This blog post exists exclusively to rei...
I was a fairly early adopter of Kickstarter.com because I thought it seemed like a promising and pragmatic way to get small projects funded. I never had any illusion about it, fully understooding it's a corporation and not a community initiative. Since its beginning, the mission of Kickstarter.com i...
I design dungeons in idle time, and sometimes I even run them. I also run lots of dungeons other people have designed. In both scenarios, there are times when I encounter a thing in the design of the dungeon that makes it suddenly complex to run. I tend to be mindful, now, of this when I create my o...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer set **Haunted Woods of Malthorin). In this post, I review its gameplay.
Hanted Woods of Malthorin is a small Dungeoneer deck, with just 55 cards in it. This has a fex different effects on gameplay. First, i...
Many mechanics in D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2 are exactly the same. There are a few, however, that differ substantially, and oddly I don't see much discussion about it online. This blog post is my effort to remedy that.
Proficiency isn't global
In 5e, you have exactly one Proficiency Bonus. It start...