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Does the door the player plans to talk to have something interesting and compelling to say? Will it drive the party's actions forward...

With the expansion of the location/setting in Curse of Strahd (as opposed to the much shorter/quicker plotline in the original I6...

I LOVE Eberron as a setting and have run a pair of campaigns there before... but I have always known of and have had to try and...

As far as 5E was concerned... they wanted a Finesse weapon that could do 1d8 damage. But to make sure that level of Dexterity-based...

Whereas I find that character death makes players entirely check out of the game. "Oh, my character can just die randomly despite my...

The statement that the only thing that matters in an an RPG is whether or not you die is a very foreign one to me. For me, the core of a...

Can you imagine? "You can take an additional action, except the magic action, or a ready action to cast a spell" it's kind of silly. If...

And that's why you've chosen a game to play that in theory gives you that.

Sure! Good starting point and oftentimes would be worthwhile... but it never needs to be a hard and fast rule. If someone gets hit...

IMO examples of those "narrative points" determined after the fact would include any situation in which the damage type is relevant via...

Hit points are hit points. A game construct used to play the board game part of D&D. But the story and narrative of what happens in D&D...

Mornard had it right when he said (paraphrasing): 'I don't know what a 'pacing-mechanism' is, and whatever Gary said about luck was...

Not the core ranger and too close progression. I'm not belittling the system. I am saying that the effects that people typically...

That depends on what is being fought. You don't need magic to kill a human. You might need magic to kill a dragon: I'd say in most D&D...

exactly, the ranger is focused on survivability and practicality, they will absolutely pick up any new useful tool that could be at...