The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect, bastardized the class-based system, and resembles a comic-book superheroes game more than a fantasy RPG where a player can play any alignment desired, not just lawful good.

In many ways I still resent the wretched yellow journalism that was clearly evident in (the media's) treatment of the game - 60 Minutes in particular. I've nev…

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

The idea that a game is anything more than a game: You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results.…

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience. There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of i…

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world an…