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I'll keep it short...for now. [cue villain laughter.] Rich Baker, Steve Schubert, and I founded a game company to make high-end tabl...

I did some story-gaming over the holiday weekend with a GM who was devoted to the concept of “failing forward”—the idea t...

I love action points. (And their Pathfinder equivalent, hero points.) But I hate the action point rules. To my mi...

Here’s another thing I’m subtracting out as I build my next D&D campaign: PCs who aren’t sitting at my table. They no longer get cam...

I’m part of a worldbuilding collaboration at the moment, and we’re getting significant mileage out of the power of subtraction: taking som...

Alternate Title: "A DM, an adventure designer, and a monster designer walk into a bar..." In the first two ...

Can you do a three-stage boss monster for D&D Next ? Absolutely—and it’s warranted. If you thought that the Big Bads...