Balancing encounters is an ever-present concern for GMs not wishing to slaughter the party before gameplay even gets started. Danger abounds...

In a prehistoric game like Epoch, it's inevitable that players will want to invent certain things, whether domesticating animals for mou...

There's never been a better time to be a gamer. It's our golden age. The mainstreaming of the hobby means we're no longer dismis...

As Christmas approaches, toys spring immediately to mind. Yours truly has talked (ad nauseum) about getting Holmes Basic for Christmas, but ...

Our latest, Epoch , is a prehistoric game emphasizing wilderness hexcrawls. Even so, fixed encounters are essential to an overarching game n...