I forget where in the multitudinous blogoland, but someone posted a comment to the effect that high-level characters in Lamentations of the ...

From the halcyon days of 2008, and the workshop of 4th Edition, comes  this testimonial   to the Ever-Rising Statistical Treadmill as desig...

And now to the alleged problem that started all these musings. Do high-level combats really degenerate into boring slog-fests, wading throug...

From the comments and my own thinking it seems that the new solutions to the grind of high-level combat break into two categories: escalat...

How to make D&D combat between hit point juggernauts different from combat between glass-jaw first-levels, but fun at the same time ? ...

Trying to come up with answers to the challenge of how to make high-level combat more than a grind, I asked myself: "What did the great...

A parody of adventure game design - almost like the old Dungeon! game, or the present-day Munchkin game - would base combat and skill outc...

Level titles are cool. They give the same sense of achievement and specialness as the level titles of real-world secret societies: the Mithr...

I guess I should also summarize my commenters' opinions on the higher spell levels, even though they're not going to get the one-pag...

We grow near the end of our long chromatic journey. I thank you for your patience. Up here is where stuff gets ... Biblical. So let it b...

The upper two levels of sacred magic, before we get on to the Great Mysteries. Some of these spells are controversial ... O Death (and her...