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"I stand there and swing my sword." Even though this approach can be effective, it's horribly boring. That's why games in recent decades have expanded combat options to include different combat maneuvers, cool tactical choices, ongoing spell effects ...

Tropes are frameworks for plot beats and character arcs. Cliches are the overused versions of those beats and arcs. Cliches, generally, should be avoided, but tropes are useful AF. They work like signposts, guiding your decisions when it comes to ...

Recently, one of my gaming groups decided to change games. We decided to go back to an old favorite Forbidden Lands. As we were sitting around the table, finalizing our decision, I started to survey our table situation and thought about how would we ...

Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about what to do when you have characters in your game whose mechanical abilities overlap and you can't rely on traditional 'niche' protection to move the spotlight around the table. Or, what to do when you ...

All images were taken from the Ryuutama game Again I found myself in the situation of introducing someone to the TTRPG world. D&D keeps being the one everyone knows about, but it can be hard to grasp how to play a game with such depth. I looked into ...