Our Mission

The goal of this website is to promote discussion about various tabletop roleplaying games. To that end, we field questions about some of the more complex topics in the hobby, and generally getting lost in the weeds of their massive rulebooks.

The length of many rulebooks for these games can exceed 300 pages, which leaves plenty of room for ambiguities, as well as plenty of topics for more lengthy discussion. While there’s no shortage of tutorials discussions for beginners, we feel it’d be remiss to ignore the more advanced participants in the hobby.

Statement of Ethics

Our goal is to provide answers to unusual questions regarding tabletop RPGs. To that end, we sometimes need to cite data from the rulebooks of games. However, we also realize that these rulebooks are also the primary product of many such games.

For this reason, our aim is to avoid including more of such data than is necessary for our articles, and thus to avoid making rulebooks obsolete.

Statement on Generative Artificial Intelligence

The tools we collectively know of as Artificial Intelligence in the year 2025 have purpose. They’re effective at identifying patterns and making predictions based on those patterns.

However its name is misleading. It is not intelligent in that it does not truly understand what it is learning. This is part of what leads to the phenomenon known as “Hallucinations.” What Generative AI writes text, it “guesses” what words should go in what order, based on what would seem to make sense. It does this regardless of if the end result is factual or reasonable.

(Some of our own experiments with AI included suggestions for discussions about tabletop RPGs, and it suggested “mixing classes” in a game that has no such structure in character creation!)

This possibility of inaccuracy, combined with the energy and cooling demands of AI make its use for this project wasteful. If what is generated by AI needs to be fact checked after it has been written via consulting a rulebook over 300 pages long, why not simply write the article without using AI?

Moreover, even if AI were effective, accurate, and efficient for our purposes: reading the rulebooks are half the fun us!