Looks like I'm running 8 hours of D&D at the State Library of Victoria for the International Game Day tomorrow (Saturday the 3rd of...

Tonight I GMed my first ever session of D&D Encounters at Games Laboratory here in Melbourne, Australia. We had four players, two w...

I've been pretty quiet about RPG stuff lately because I've been beavering away on my next project.   Regular readers know that a whi...

Now that I've had time to think about some of the things that those crafty designers are WOTC are doing for D&D Next , I think that ...

My new best friend Mike from Neuroglyph Games has posted a lengthy official review of Heroes Against Darkness over on EN World: DnD Revi...

I still get tons of interest in an old blog post of mine where I played a super-simple D&D -style RPG with my daughter Violet: D&D...

So I just got the new survey from the D&D Next team about the playtest, and I'm frustrated with this one. It asks which spells mu...

For the last five weeks (or so) we've been playing the D&D Next playtest (as have much of the rest of the D&D fraternity).   I...

Of all of the decisions I've made during the development of Heroes Against Darkness , the page limitation on spells per class is - at fi...

Yet another of my self-imposed 'rules' for Heroes Against Darkness is to avoid the sorts of absolute effects of earlier (and future...

Much to the consternation of some of my more seasoned D&D players, Heroes Against Darkness doesn't have some of the staples of mag...

There's already been a lot of discussion about the advantage/disadvantage mechanics in D&D Next , but here are a few more quick thou...

The other day I posted my early thoughts and opinions of the playtest rules for D&D Next and tonight we finally got a chance to play ...

I've been looking forward to the D&D Next open playtest for quite a while.  I previously blogged about some of the expectations tha...

First, a quick confession. I'm generally such an isolated throwback that I hadn't even heard of 'niche protection' until ...

Heroes Against Darkness employs a number of techniques to keep magi relatively balanced against the martial classes. First, the combinatio...

Let's get this out of the way: I strongly dislike Vancian magic. When I started work on Heroes Against Darkness we'd just finishe...

It's no secret that Heroes Against Darkness is firmly rooted in the traditions and mechanics of all editions of D&D . When describi...

I've developed the ideas here into a full RPG for kids called Hero Kids . Check it out here: Hero Kids fantasy RPG for kids My daug...