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the goal was not for the OGL to die, but for them to get a piece of the pie from the products created under it, and supposedly to...

I find it T5E a repugnant idea on multiple levels - first off is brand confusion with T5. second is that I don't see D&D 5E/ WSRD5.x as...

Charisma is harder. Those who are charismatic generally can't play uncharismatic well, and those who are personally uncharismatic simply...

the cons are small... both... but very fun. Not as small as my favorite from back in AK... Denali Con was held at Mountain Mary's...

Corvallis, Oregon, has C3 Con, which is hybrid board, RPG, and anime/manga fandom, but is leaning more to RPG each time. Cheap, too...

There's a good SRD... https://freeleaguepublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/YZE-Standard-Reference-Document.pdf But it's not a...

I don't track the C7 Warhammer releases. Mork Borg and TOR/LOTR are not theirs; they just publish them for the designers.

The half-dozen I've tried utterly failed, but most of these are character based ones... the issue being that they cannot separate the...

I find this strange because while solo RPGing can be engaging, I don't think it is very much like "roleplaying" at all and is more like...

i feel like that scenario isn't a railroad, but it's a false positive of not being a railroad simply by the players just so happened to...

Cosmic Patrol.

Generally speaking my answer is static, but I think that the locks and thieves example has some additional nuance. A high level party...

It's only railroading if the puzzle becomes absolutely required to solve. In other words, if the door to the puzzle is surrounded by...

Clearly, you have no experience with White Plume Mountain as written. It's one big railroad of puzzle after puzzle. So, illusionism...

No, it's definitely a railroad. AND a mistake. And, generally, bad GMing... Note that I said "only way to advance the plot" - leaving...