Balance! Rules-heavy games can become a bit much for me over the long haul. I would not really consider D&D 5e rules-heavy at lower levels. But once you get past, say, 12th or 13th level, there are so many little nuances, abilities, feats, reactions, combat...
I Don’t Want Your Character to Die—I Want Them to Live With It I want a game with stakes. I also don’t want characters to be disposable fodder where somebody dies, shrugs, and rolls up another character five minutes later. That style of play is pretty...
I have personally been play-testing the setting of Samhain for six years now. A few weeks back, I decided to resurrect the 13RPG system I had put together, lay it over Samhain, tweak what needed tweaking, and begin using it exclusively in my weekly games. It has very...
Today, as far as I am concerned, begins “spooky season.” I am not sure how I feel about that phrase, spooky season. It just sounds like something Martha Stewart would say, and it is more on the side of cutesy than frightening, but I’ll try not to...
Chipping Away at the Samhain Oracle Deck Well, here I am on a flip day. That is, instead of going in for work in the morning, I am going to work in the afternoon. So, drawing was on the menu today. Between last night and this morning I was able to get two more cards...
