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Box text is great for two reasons. it helps new dms. And can set the mood. I hated the two seasons Adventure league drop the box text.

Indeed. And there are also DMs who are not good at describing things extemporaneously. Folks should use whichever method works best for...

I find it useful if written well and concisely. 3 to 5 sentences at most and then other details listed to be shared if the party looks...

I love read aloud text in my adventures, and I much prefer my adventures to have it. I appreciate good writing and, if it's not good, I...

I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Good read-aloud text makes running adventures much, much easier. There are lots of examples of bad read-aloud text. But I've seen many...

Short, evocative, with no implied actions by the PC. It shouldn't over explain and should encourage interaction.

There is good read aloud text, and there is bad read aloud text. There are also people who read text aloud well, and people who don’t.

I am amazed by it every time I use it. I used to think that D&D Beyond was a platform worth $160M, how could a tiny company do anything...

From one D&D-playing Chris Perkins (who's also retiring this year) to another, I wish him all of the best in his future endeavors! He...

This is extremely impressive.

This is how I feel about them. If they hadn't reversed course on the OGL, they'd have lost me. But they did. In the grand scheme of...

Sure, yeah. And WotC's choices and mistakes have not crossed my personal threshold yet. It came close for me during the OGL crisis...

Sentences like this are pretty dire: "When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack...

I think Keywords help in many areas, but it's too easy to fall into the Overused Condition.