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I always wonder: what's wrong with tied initiatives and simultaneous actions? Also, these systems seem to assume static initiative...

It is kind of cool, but I do not know what 'extended frontier' is or if it is assumed a certain level for the numbers to mean much. I'm...

That's true, but this thread is a world building exercise, so the backgrounds are definitely going to be used somehow. We haven't...

Never can go wrong with a +1 to AC. Don't know how many times I say, does a 16 hit and the player is all no- I'm an 17. Cheers all around.

Build tension where you can. just save or random damage is not cool enough. Maybe there a re places where the PC can try to do...

Once I grew comfortable with the truth that my beloved childhood cartoons were just commercials, I stopped being concerned with what...

I found that a lot of background only works if the DM uses it. Mostly a lot of background fluff stays there and the player might be the...

Some might depend on playstyle. When I ran the Stormwreck Isle box I found that I needed to modify a lot for my game. The idea of a...

I agree. A 1-sheet template would help sort out many factions. Some larger ones like the Harpers might need a few with having factions...

I do the following for my factions now combining Fronts, some Blades in the Dark Turf rules and pushing PC Hooks I came up with this...

We use a version of this in our current campaign. The GM has pegs with character names on them, and others that say ‘Monster A’ and so...

One of my issues right now is that I have only a few players, but lots of PCs. I cannot just hand the player a tent with a number on...

I saw a D&D video on factions. The author was saying that about anything is a faction from the kingdom-wide groups of soldiers or...

I miss the days of receiving physical Dragon magazines in the mail. Snarfquest FTW.

Well, it's hard for me to think up things without wondering how balanced they'd be in play, so it seems sensible to take things that...