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From the AD&D DMG, pp 9, 61: the reader should understand that ADBD is designed to be an amusing and diverting pastime, something which...

But this assumes that absolutely every "lowlight" moment always informs the next highlight moment, and further that nothing except those...

Oye! Exactly how many encounters would you manage in an evening? People said 4e combat was too slow!

Oh, come now. He's mostly just explicating what every successful game designer knows. If you want to know that sort of thing, why not...

1e DMG. I don't have it in front of me, but he brings this up several times in different contexts. First of all is the general GMing...

Well, I don't see how you could call a 'hidden rules' game really a game. It is simply an exercise in puzzle-solving, at best, or a...

OK, so you adopt the stop-motion interpretation of the fiction. Upthread I conjectured that no one does this, but it turns out I was wrong!

And yet those low level PCs survive in this 'most dangerous' part of the city. Either the city just ain't that dangerous (for PCs at...

Oh, stop it! There's huge concessions to playability in all these setups! Of course there are always clear signposts telling the players...

That's a huge assumption. It's incredibly easy to come up with something interesting that is 100% in the fiction. Example: they're in an...

I find this both very surprising and very frustrating, because I know I have said to both of you, multiple times, that the books...

But... but... I thought that there was absolutely no story telling in Sandbox games. Especially no story telling by the DM. How can...

Expense? It was as low-stakes as your typical RPG session!

I mean... saying you can skip past some stuff is decent advice was met with resistance. If that doesn't sum up the thread title...

I found Paragon, in the form of Agon, was interesting, but pretty limited. Our games seemed pretty heavily slanted in favor of the PCs...