As I mentioned last night, today is the 5th anniversary of Tenkar's Tavern. Simply fuckin' amazing. Seriously, I never though...

If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that I am very entrenched in the older ruelsets of D&D, their clones and derivatives...

I almost forgot that tomorrow marks the 5th anniversary of Tenkar's Tavern. Five years. I literally almost forgot - yes, it has been tha...

I'm in pain. No, not that normal I just banged by knee and holy shit that's painful type of pain. No, the type of pain that happens...

I'm basically a "fantasy" DM at heart. It's what I broke my teeth on when I came into the hobby and it's what I rea...

This picture makes me want run Other Dust . Why? Because the scene fits my group to a "T"! (besides, they'd really l...

Two years ago I kicked off the group's ACKS campaign. Admittedly, that because the group quickly burned out on playtesting D&D ...

I have a confession to make - I've only played Savage Worlds once, and I still managed to get my character killed. That being said, ...

From today's Legends & Lore Column (offered without comment - edited and trimmed from the full original, so as not to violate any...

Lets see: My son turns 21 tomorrow, May 30th. The Tavern turns 5 on Saturday, May 31st (we don't count the aimless post from 2008) ...

Sure, it says it's a "quickstart", but it includes rules for advancing your skill and it doesn't include an adventure,...

Think about it. Everything beyond what will soon be in the freely distributed Basic Rules for 5e is, essentially, optional. If the cor...

Ravenloft isn't horror, or at least, not horror like CoC and the like. Ravenloft is more camp than anything else, where any of the ...

GURPS, the infinite frontier. Where amazing sourcebooks boldly go. Sure, D&D 5e is all the rage right now, but GURPS has been giving a...

Possibly. The OSR does have punch for it's size. I don't think any one voice did the convincing tho'. In truth, I think the e...

The clues were there, and I wrote about some of them, such as the Free Player's Handbook covering the core four classes (check) and ...

I stumbled across the 13 Mann Publishing House earlier today, and found that they are currently playtesting rules for a Traveller Start...

Word on the street, or in certain circles of the RPG Community, is that 5e is fairly close to 2e in nature with some new bells and whist...

We know that Hoard of the Dragon Queen (first part of the two part Tyranny of Dragons storyline) is playable without the Player's H...

Mike has been taking some heavy hits in the social media arena. Well deserved hits, but hits none the less. So I give  +Mike Mearls  credit ...