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I think typically between 1 and 2 hours of prep time per hour at the table. The worst ratio I ever had was probably 5 hours of prep...

I would say 50:50 ratio. Three hours prep for a three hour session. Reading scenarios, writing up events, landing pages, maps, VTT...

Hr. This is difficult to answer. I have, for a long time now, been using a lot of published adventure materials. This massively...

Many more than that. Regardless of which edition of D&D we are talking about, assigning a "challenge rating" and thus a reward to...

Trying to avoid the “splitting” effects territory—and failing miserably Breath weapon or major breath weapon? DMG, p. 227: “Breath...

What were they thinking? Some further musings on the subject of “What in blazes were they thinking when they created Appendix E!?”, in...

It doesn't help that when Hollywood depicts the 1920s it almost invariably depicts the 1930s - and quite often the late 1930s - in terms...

White Box OD&D "Of Men and Magic". You could call that a prototype I suppose. The 1st printing is a valuable collectible if in good...

The thing is, competitive play sucks now. It’s a coin flip, followed by two people playing solitaire, where the person who won the flip...

For anyone interested in the dichotomy I've talked about, I cannot recommend enough pretty much anything by Dr. Amy H. Sturgis...

That may well be my mistake, but "Wellsian" and "Vernian" don't commonly mean optimistic or pessimistic, even when you google the...

What I use... ALTER SELF Transmutation Level: Brd 2, Sor/Wiz 2 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Personal Target...

The one thing I tried to do in my musings was point out that hope and despair are trends, not absolutes. Good people fall to temptation...

No. Maybe someone has but it is not at all obvious to me that the words are commonly used as you use them here. For example, this is...

I don't think I would characterize either writer so simply. The quintessential Wells story for me is, "The Food of the Gods". And...