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Benjamin Olson reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It? with
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I voted for fighting monsters, overcoming obstacles, social encounters, and treasure. For treasure it's not straight up gold for... -
Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them?.There seems to be a divergence between a ttrpg folk tradition of spectacular crits and fumbles and what most actual game designers want...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It?.XP should be for accomplishing things the game wants me to accomplish, whether killing monsters, overcoming obstacles, finding...
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To follow on to Morrus, speaking as someone who has sold content (not gaming-related), your biggest problem will be getting people to...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
This is a flaw in a lot of modules - they don't deal with any of the obvious "what if"s. The classic example of this: pretty much any...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Play tester advice.Take your content and run with it? Are you worried about someone stealing your ideas or just about the game getting out of your hands in...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Stalker0's post in the thread Who Should Gal Gadot Play In The New DCU? with Like.
Well they are doing it for Jason Mamoa (he will not be Aquaman but instead will be Lobo)....so I think that is what spured the question...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
I wouldn’t know. I’ve never written in any book I’ve ever owned. Notebooks, sure. Book books, never. Highlighters? In textbooks, sure...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
Make them softcover, staple or coil bound, sans art, black & white, printed on low-quality paper, and dirt cheap. Then people might...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to EpicureanDM's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
I sympathize, but I think the form would improve if we all got past that reluctance. I think people tend to confuse how RPG scenarios...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
One of the big challenges I as a small time publisher has with the digital/physical approach is you basically have two completely...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+].Yeah, I half wrote out another point about how really adventure design is too rooted in the limitations of physical books, and...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+].I've never written a module and most that I've run have not been good from an "running accessibility" standpoint. That said I've thought...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
A couple of the things you lined out are actually important in context, but this is why if you’re doing stuff for a publication, you...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to GothmogIV's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
I'll tell you what, my friends: I've read probably 100+ modules over my decades of gaming, but I'm writing my first one, and it is an...