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When I started gaming back in the late 1980s, we didn't have anyone to compare ourselves against aside from the other people we gamed...

The encounter rules are simply there as a guideline, there is no "cheesing" the encounter rules to throw something other than easy...

There's a vast spectrum between no-harm DMs and killer DMs. It is and always has been up to the DM and players where they end up on...

Many monsters have multi-attack and like most DMs I've ever had I group initiative so that monsters of the same type go at the same...

Your players aren't concerned when they drop to 0? Mine are, but one thing I might be doing differently is that I roll their death...

It's a pretty common trope that the protagonist is about to be killed in their sleep and for some reason it doesn't happen. They wake...

are hit points meat? luck? stamina? it doesn't really matter, hit points are ENOUGH to simulate what they're trying to simulate.

The argument of what hit points "really" are - or why the vast majority of combat oriented video game treat them exactly the same - is...

One other thing I forgot to mention is that I try to make decisions meaningful. I try to give people a reason to go left or right when...

I think we also experience a not-insignificant number of posters who do not actively play the D&D game they are actively complaining...

Nobody is saying you're wrong that it COULD have been better managed. If it had WotC never would have been able to buy TSR in 1997. Gary...

As I said on the other thread I don't do dungeon maps (or really dungeons) per se, I use theater of the mind for most exploration. So...

I think BG 3 proved a D&D could do a popular video game, not that I expect anything as popular any time soon. But MMOs? The bit bin is...