The Gaming Den

It's very easy and surface-level to adopt non-Western mo I think the interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism is really interesting and an important part of fantasy China. Similarly the interplay between Buddhism and Shinto is important to fantasy Japan and the interplay between Buddhis...

Your Chinese Wuxia or Japanese Samurai game may have Filipino traders to the north and a Khmer Empire stand-in in the tropical south, but there will be less text dedicated to it. If our hypothetical setting picks up and gets popular, more sourcebooks can be made to further expand upon them. I'd lik...

(I mean, how many characters in 3,x were really using their immediate actions? Correct answer: almost none). There were quite a lot of spells and ToB maneuvers that used immediate actions. Translation: almost no immediate actions were ever used. The immediate action spells were gimmicky and weird a...

(I mean, how many characters in 3,x were really using their immediate actions? Correct answer: almost none).

There were quite a lot of spells and ToB maneuvers that used immediate actions.

So, upon first glance it seems odd that such being as Elminster and high level fighters exist. Anyone who has actually seen Elminster’s build, or, indeed, that of Drizz’t Do’Udren was surely shocked at the sheer ineptitude which with they were designed. Drizz’t, master swordsman that he is, cannot d...

Heh, Neil Gaiman's work I believe?