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I do definitely believe that art direction is creative output, and I do not mean to diminish art direction as an important role. If that...

Pretty much all knowledge checks in skill-based systems basically acknowledge that a particular character's knowledge is all in a...

Well, it might create a situation where the players all sagely nod their heads and say "Yep, there's no way we would have known how long...

I mean, they're worse off than they would have been if they had made the check! I think of it this way: the starting position of the...

Sorry, yeah, I agree, I shouldn't have said "in his head" in the sense that it's a secret. The players would have to know they're at...

Or hisss. SAFe

Upthread, there were multiple posts about the use of Knowledge-type checks to learn backstory, or similar stuff. Reading stuff written...

I wish I could like this post twice, because both parts of it I agree with completely.

There have been multiple times in my life when I've wanted to see a physical reference image for something I can picture in my head, and...

I have hovered so many times over the Post Thread button to explain in adoration how much I love background systems as in 13th Age (and...

Thing is, without doing the work, you can't know which ingredients to use and how to slice those, and you can't know how and if the chef...

No matter how much I feel I should defend Easley, the preview image in the other thread is to me far better. It's mid-action rather than...

I am sorry to say this, but you have deluded yourself.

Your labor is writing sentences and throwing them over the wall and getting a different representation of those sentences, yet you want...

And before you say "I can't draw, so I use gen AI", know that leads right back to "I can't draw, so I ask the computer to do all the...