Q: I need some suggestions for games that can be played with someone blind (age 18). We have Catch Phrase that he really enjoys, but need more games. Any suggestions? Thanks a ton.

A: With regard to “traditional” games, the first thing that comes to our mind are Braille playing cards, several different varieties of which are available (e.g., on Amazon.com), including Poker, Rook, and Tarot decks (although we are not familiar with any actual games that can be played with the latter sorts of cards).

Roleplaying games, of course, would be our first choice. Not many resources are available for blind players, but if at least one person in a gaming group was sighted, they would be able to serve as a game master and narrator for anyone who was not. There is no reason to think that participating in a roleplaying game would be any less enjoyable for a blind player than for any other (although a little assistance from the game master or another player with paperwork might occasionally be helpful). Indeed, having a blind player in a party might even inspire some variants that do not usually turn up in roleplaying game sessions (e.g., the possibility of one or more blind characters in a party).

We hope that helps a little bit! If any of our readers have any other ideas or suggestions, please be sure to post them here!

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Q: I'm looking for any leads you may give me on two old Dragon articles dating back to the 80s. One was on a new sub class of rangers called an Archer ranger and the other was regarding character profiles on Elric and Stormbringer. Any help would be appreciated.

A: Several years ago, Wizards of the Coast released an indexed version of Dragon back issues on CD. If that is still available, it would probably be your best bet for tracking down specific articles.

With regard to the Archer Ranger, our understanding is that the bow-oriented options available to the v.3.5 Ranger incorporate an earlier vision of what this class should be. Around the time the v.3.5 rules were released, there was a download available on the Wizards site with an alternate bow-using Ranger class.

With regard to the Elric stats, it must have been the very early 1980s! Prior to the 1984 re-release of the 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons Deities & Demigods tome, this book included sections on the Melnibonean and Cthulhu mythos. These were, however, infringements of other people's intellectual property, and the book was reprinted without them (and without, naturally, any mention of the book's previous incarnation).

Hope this helps at least a little! We would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows anything more about either of these subjects.

The editors at Skirmisher Publishing LLC are hard at work pulling together material for an expanded Addenda and Errata sheet for our extremely popular book Nuisances! Following is one of the tables that will appear in it, and we would appreciate your help with it or anything else you would like to pitch in on. If we use your material, we will acknowledge your contribution and send you a copy of any product we use it in (e.g., we are talking about releasing an expanded, PDF version of Nuisances later this year).

Random Suggestive Words (d?)
1 Fallacious
2 Felicitate
3 Homophone
4 Masticate
5 Philately
6 Seaman
7 ...

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