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Then it's a good thing that you and many of your fellow gamers already have dozens if not hundreds of alternatives. Daggerheart just...

In D&D and related games the mental mechanic that people have issue with is telling people what they think unless there's external...

I don't speak for others, but my position is that ultimate cause and effect are irrelevant to the mechanical task being accomplished...

So the game is supposed to give descriptions of everything that happens? Everything tree, leaf, bug? Do they need to be able to...

D&D 5e isn’t declining, and everyone who picks up DH because of CR is already familiar with D&D 5e, so…no. And frankly, I doubt very...

Yeah, I am curious how future Darrington Press projects will develop. I am pretty sure D&D will retain the tabletop dominance. For me...

Edit - ninja'd by @clearstream who said it better but a short version ... Have you never had someone touch your shoulder and jumped a...

I'd like to take a stab at defending the manifesto from the perspective of a wargaming tradition that random rolls represent things that...

Even then you didn't kill that person directly when you locked him in. It was indirect. If you shoot someone in the leg and give that...

If they would have died anyway had I done nothing, my failing to get into the building didn't change anything.

That's an in-fiction deadline, which makes lots of sense. Again, though, an in-fiction thing rather than a meta-counter. You've...

If I were to run a burning house scenario there would be a set number of rounds the character had to achieve a rescue. The number would...

So no I'm responsible for every single death that I could have possibly prevented? I must be a mass murderer a million times over...

You folks seem to really like to make denigrating comments about trad play philosophies in the course of "proving your point". Dont see...

Not being able to unlock a door won't in and of itself change the fiction of the world or ongoing events if I'm running the game. I...