This is something I've known about for a while, but if I've blogged about it before, I've forgotten. And I didn't tag it wit...

Nate, who has been playing Tusken Tumble, the Half-Orc Acrobat in my West Marches game, started a 5E game using the free content WotC has b...

Based on previous discussion , I have expanded the spell lists for Treasures, Serpents, and Ruins East . Actually, the Mudang and Sohei re...

Interesting discussion last night during and after our Rad Hack game. Jeremy had wanted to run a standard fantasy type campaign using The Bl...

I know I've blogged about this before years ago, but I'm blogging about it again. In the old days, spells were presented and descr...

First off, this is not, despite the tag I'm sticking on the post, an "edition war" post. Those are dumb and a waste of time. L...

I sometimes feel like I'm the only OSR guy that doesn't have Dungeon Crawl Classics. I've gotten some modules for it, but don...

Again, multiple influences have congealed in my brain to inspire a blog post! Original content that isn't about Chanbara or Mentzer Basi...

I just spent a few minutes (didn't take long) comparing the eight magical traditions in 5E with the various spell schools in 1E, and how...

I've got spell lists for my three Maho-tsukai sub-classes, Onmyoji, Soryo and Yamabushi done (may switch a name here or there for color,...

Now that my grad school papers are finished, I've got a short break before I need to revise one of them for publication.  That means I...

Again, thinking about 5E spell casters.  Classes exist in the game to allow players to do different things.  In OD&D, Fighters fight.  ...

While I'm for the most part positive about the new edition, there are a few things in it I'm not sure I like.  I'm withholding j...

16 Which RPG besides D&D has the best magic system? Give details. First off, I really do like the Vancian system. It works well. ...

Getting right into it this week, looking at pages 39-42 of the Players Manual, the descriptions of MU spells.  If I skip a spell, it's b...

In the middle of the Mentzer Basic Players Manual are/were eight pages (two double sided sheets) that could be removed by prying up the stap...

I figured out the changes I wanted to make to the game system. First of all, instead of d6 rolls for most exploration/interaction rolls,...

My son actually asked to play Dungeons & Dragons with me today.  He's still 4 months shy of his 6th birthday, so of course I had to ...

There are six "schools" of magic in Chanbara.  I still haven't decided what to call them, schools or traditions or domains or ...

Yesterday and today, I decided that I didn't like the way I'd done magic in Chanbara. Well, that's not 100% accurate.  I'v...