Dungeons preventing teleport , passwall , and other magical ways around or through walls have been a design cliche since Undermountain. It...

Joseph Manola is onto something in this well argued, erudite essay on the importance of the ruin to classic and old-school-influenced D...

Five more to go in a highly irregular series of 36 d20-based encounter tables. Roll d20, read straight across, or roll 2 d20's and conne...

Les Misérables Author: Victor Hugo, 1862 (tr. Norman Denny) Publisher: Penguin Classics System: System-neutral/free-form Setting: French...

A good game-runner, tester, designer, stays alert to the signs of boredom around the table. Like the rules that everyone forgets , the exper...

In a recent session in the Castle of the Mad Archmage, the Muleteers went to retrieve the bodies, dead or alive, of a couple of rival party ...

(The scenario on the home island of my Tekumel party comes here for general use; next, a short report of how they handled it.) To while aw...