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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Cities don’t just happen, though it may look that way to those who live in one. As a GM/world-builder you...

Oh yeah, I'm running "Return to the Tomb of Horrors" (with some editing to fit my campaign world) and the maps have... issues. LOL...

In the early days of companies publishin their supposedly converted adventures from D&D 2.0 to D&D 3.5, the 5 ft. square (which we now...

There was an article many years ago by Dave Noonan called "Proud Nails" talking about aspects of the system that kind of stick out. He...

Right, if the player had described it like heroically or action film like, id been more cool with it. Though, it was more like, "how...

And for me it's not the damage, it's the in-game way characters react to it. If a player is willing to role-play his character as being...

Yeah falling in D&D can be really problematic. Jumping down 40' might feel heroic and could be described well to make it feel cool, but...

That reminds me of one session I had. Most of the party was on the roof of a keep about 40 ft tall. They were engaged in a battle when...

Absolutely, especially when it's "jumps on grenade not knowing whether you're going to survive".

Agreed. I do think the aforementioned test of "player knows about potential harm, character doesn't" pretty quickly shows where players...

My group shifts GM every two or three adventures (3 to 6 sessions). We also change RPG each time. We went from Coriolis, to Traveller...

The reason we don't do much combat is because we are also war gamers. We play 'true' war game and do campaigns with progression points...

You make a good point which is that horror, by necessity, requires immersion. I've learned this the hard way that you can't "fake"...

I really do think this is something players figure out for themselves. DMs who are players, IME, tend towards immersion because they are...

Recent example from my campaign: I had monsters that if you attacked them would cause your valuables to burst into flames. Each PC who...