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As a mere babe who started with the dawn of 2e, I can't say how much of this was true in the 1e days. But when I started, one of the...

Pretty much every game I've ever played. Competitive Team Fortress 2 is for all intents and purposes a different game from the game...

As has been mentioned many times on this board, folks should absolutely read The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson for a great exploration...

Really good points. This is how folks get players that just slay any prisoner or even any NPC so they cant be betrayed. While a common...

Something I am quite proud of with my Dungeon World game is that, on more than one occasion, the players have had this response, not to...

Above and beyond anything else in the thread, this is a lesson I wholeheartedly embrace and wish more GMs would heed. Doesn't matter...

How does this square with the way a lot of old-school adventures are presented? Because, frankly, a lot of them look like"door-kicking...

I don't know. I'm playing in two campaigns and running one and very rarely get anything but full table, but I consciously organize games...

I'm not super convinced about some fundamental difference between RPGs and every other type of games. In my experience, pretty much...

I most often run 5e. I have run 4e, but that was before I’d been turned onto this style, though I’d be interested in giving it another...

The idea there popped the second I read your description. If on a given read through of an adventure something that obvious jumps out...

Thats a classic bit that notifies the players of a trap. Sometimes knowing its there but how to outsmart it is very fun too. I like the...

To clarify, I was more looking for how you, as GM, enhance that sparse description in the module to signal to the players that it is...

I hope they ran him out of town with rotten fruit and horse whips.

Yeap, one of the pitfalls can be the conveyance one way or another between GM and player(s). I recall a story about a group of players...