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Chargen in Champions is... special. It is definitely worth having someone who really understands the system to do that.

Champions comes to mind. Half the rulebook was descriptions of various powers characters could take during creation. Once creation was...

Absolutely true. The locked action economy of a lot of modern games (esp. 5E) have some benefits but they sure can prevent actions like...

It’s also a non-issue in games with looser initiative like Daggerheart. Once any PC has the spotlight they can just say they’re...

Mike "Sly Fourish" Shea recently posted a video on this kind of thing. I tried using "side initiative" for a while to allow for that.

100%. Lots of things that make sense in the secondary reality don't fit in with the fact that there are people sitting around a table...

There are a lot of ways to handle retreating that don't make it a fool's game; its just not particularly common to do so. As I noted...

One solution for the 'hard to retreat due to action economy' is to grant the retreating party a special retreat surprise action where...

I also think we need more nuance in the conversation when we describe a game as "crunchy" or "light". When people say "crunch" they...

Chronicles of the Black Moon is responsible for much of the planet of the Greyhawk setting, Oerth, for the regions of Oerth that are...

I like the way that movement and range works. It was a system borrowed from Imperium Maledictum. The scene is split into zones so a...

Careers in The Old World are really just careers, as in the thing you do between adventures in order to survive and maintain your place...

May be. The problem I have with the way a lot of games have come to be written is that there's often 0 reason to do anything but the...

Most people playing AD&D used some (often unique in their area) subset of the gygaxian spew of rules text...

Some of this is just how 3.X implemented old skool "you need to do your research and be prepared for your foes", something that in games...