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One of the funnier videos about the Satanic Panic that I have seen. Worth a watch!

by Brooks HesterSo once I came up with the engineering problems to inject some realisminto the campaign I wanted to come up with some solutions for thecharacters. Something to cause them to go off on a tangent. To makethem have to stop what they are doing to unravel the problems with theship. Just as in real life when the water heater at home goes out or yourcar needs new tires.This is by no means the only resolution list and I encourage the players tocome up with their own fixes. However, if they are stuck I give them somegeneral parts from...

by Brooks Hester There is an enormous amount of online content regarding the RPG Traveller, including some great Reddit pageshttps://www.reddit.com/r/traveller/and Freelance Traveller, a fan operated site.While digging through much of it I came across a fine charactergenerator. I have seen these before and very often they leave outsome vital mechanism or omit a piece that I might consider central to acharacter’s creation.For example: once I used an online generator that left out a line in the“mustering out” table. Probably a computer glitch or programming errorbut still, the opportunity for a player to roll a ship or a weapon is kind of...

This is just a really quick post to throw a link out.  https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-your-dd-character-rare/ As I suspected, and as Gygax must be watching with satisfaction - humans are by far the most popular race. Interestingly enough, the difference between the most popular class (fighter) and the least (druid(...really?!?)) is only 50%.  Anyway, check it out, tell me what you think.    Thanks for reading - please use discount code "Blog10" at checkout in the shop and get 10% off.  Subscribe to this blog's RSS feed here.  

So last night I was playing in an Eberron 5e game.  I play a 1st level technology obsessed (and compulsive liar about numbers) gnome artificer named Nackie.  I was running a bit late, and I couldn't find my gaming bag, that has my stuff in it, including dice. I had just bought a gaming collection, and it happened to have a bag of dice in it - lucky! So I grab the bag, hop on my bike, and get to the game.  Every single attack, skill check, initiative, you name it - failed, missed, or alerted the baddies I was...