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Here's a piece of GM advice from In A Wicked Age (p 10): Playing with details Whenever you describe something - describe your character...

This reinforces my point above about 4e SCs.

Of course, the more you emphasise that the "H"s must be different, the more that cuts both ways. Situation A is quite different from...

I'll just point out that skill challenges were maligned often, but they're a huge boon here! They allow for a mix of more and less...

Let's approach it from a perspective of what is more realistically likely play. First, the intensity and salience of any given bit of...

No. An important figure frequently cited for his authoritative perspective on "traditional GM" play and whose name is often attached...

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...