In January 1960, Fritz Leiber published the novella The Night of the Long Knives in Amazing Science Fiction Stories magazine. I recently read the book, freely available from Project Gutenberg, and this is my review of it. It's so terribly good that I almost don't want to write about it at all,...
I recently saw the movie Fear Street Prom Queen, and this is my review of it. I write movie reviews largely as reminders to myself that I've seen a movie, so there's no serious critique happening here, and this post does contain spoilers for both Fear Street Prom Queen and the lore of Fear Stre...
When I started playing Dungeoneer back in 2014, I correctly assumed that you were meant to add your Movement attribute to Movement Threat checks. I made this assumption because you added your other 2 attributes (Melee and Magic) to checks related to them. This blog post exists exclusively to rei...
I was a fairly early adopter of Kickstarter.com because I thought it seemed like a promising and pragmatic way to get small projects funded. I never had any illusion about it, fully understooding it's a corporation and not a community initiative. Since its beginning, the mission of Kickstarter.com i...
I design dungeons in idle time, and sometimes I even run them. I also run lots of dungeons other people have designed. In both scenarios, there are times when I encounter a thing in the design of the dungeon that makes it suddenly complex to run. I tend to be mindful, now, of this when I create my o...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer set **Haunted Woods of Malthorin). In this post, I review its gameplay.
Hanted Woods of Malthorin is a small Dungeoneer deck, with just 55 cards in it. This has a fex different effects on gameplay. First, i...
Many mechanics in D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2 are exactly the same. There are a few, however, that differ substantially, and oddly I don't see much discussion about it online. This blog post is my effort to remedy that.
Proficiency isn't global
In 5e, you have exactly one Proficiency Bonus. It start...