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In my experience, the right players are a mixture of luck and training...

I'll go a step further: The players you have XX months/years later aren't the same players you have at session 0. Because people...

I've started reading Children of Ruin by by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A couple of years ago I read the first book Children of Time.

No idea where the current direction of D&D is going, but hopefully it's a sharp pivot from what we have now. I'm so done with cuddly...

5e added "bounded accuracy", a design principle which is supposed to keep numeric bonuses to d20-based rolls from skyrocketing. I think...

That sounds like a fun idea!

I have been playing--mostly GMing--ttrpgs since 1981. I've run and played numerous games: D&D (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th), Call of Cthulhu...

I'm in a Draw Steel campaign that uses hero tokens and the bad guys get malice as meta currency. I personally don't care for it in...

IMO, with newer players it's probably expectations (e.g. Critical Roll) vs. reality. With older players it life getting in the way. For...

A lot of TTRPGs are built around the assumption that the players are the good guys. Blades in the dark assumes the opposite, and I...

I would hope for a return to mechanics similar to 3.5, but realistically I think they'll move in the direction of simplifying the...

To your first point, I think it's indisputable that pdfs are less expensive to produce than physical books. If you wish to believe...

I'm simply talking about producing a book vs a PDF with all other factors held constant. If you want to discuss other cost and their...

Yes, I acknowledged that in my post. My argument is all about the cost of producing the physical product vs. the PDF. I explicitly...

Appeal to authority?... No, I'm not in publishing, but I know how financials work, I know how math works and I know that producing a...