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i'm hoping I like the newer frameworks; there's a lot of grimdark in core ones.

Yeah, we're basically playing significantly different games! I only use notional sketched maps and never give positional advantage...

The current is the third edition; the first was done outside FL, hell, Before FL existed. C:TTH is the second, Page 4, by the way...

No, it's not. If you don't provide them the experiences they need to enjoy the game, they walk. Providing something to someone else for...

Mine didn't versus a trio of medusae; they did, however, use help occasionally. We also are using the action tokens for the PCs, and...

The GM who fails to serve player needs plays solo...

I've a 5 player group; they just hit tier 3. I've a 2 player group; we ended one just at tier-up to tier 3. The math is that at tiers 1...

Not strongly so in tiers 1-2. The combination of low TN means Hope results are 62 of 144. Crits are 12/144. Fails, with typical needed...

I think you're making a lot of claims about what designers do that sound (although I doubt you mean it to) very judgmental. People...

I can say I've had combats where I didn't get to do anything becuase I had no fear and they were not even missing. And others where a...

A game, clearly a clone of an existing one as its base ruleset, which makes claims to fix the original's mechanics, and gains almost no...

You can reskin the entire game, sure. The result will not bear any resemblance to what happens in Pride and Prejudice, however...

I agree with @hawkeyefan here. There is a clear process in classic D&D: the GM maps and keys a dungeon; the movement of the PCs through...

from my point of view, as a frequent user of maps and tokens in D&D since 1981... Movement is the single most mechanical of those. It's...

A single halfway decent picture of a monster beats about 250 words of descriptive text for me. My players like having both...