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The one thing that they still haven't done is balance the Psion spell list to make all four of the Spell School-paired Psionic...

Of those 200 video game people they would hire... only a handful of them would have the skillet and desire to work on hardcover RPG...

I am not saying they should, I am saying having 200 people work on the same book was the wrong takeaway. All of this ignores that video...

2E AD&D shows that throwing more money and more product at the wal is not necessarily profitable.

Considering that there's been thousands of layoffs in both Canada and the US and that the market for jobs in video games is incredibly...

One other issue I have always had with using Investigation only for deducing things is that most of the time if there is something I...

In my experience, the DM just says, "You see a scrape on the floor where the bookcase swings. Pulling it open reveals a secret...

While I think it's supposed to be used in this way, In my experience, this never happens. How I've always seen it played out is, "You...

I like having investigation be useful against traps specifically because rogues tend to have decent intelligence and often dump wisdom...

Because I always found 5E's Perception skill too overused in the beginning, I made a very switch very early on in all my campaigns that...

Every published adventure I’ve read uses perception to notice traps. In my opinion, that makes perception too much of a catch-all...

It's up to each DM. No DM is forced to make things vampires or not make them vampires, doesn't matter what the books say. The books...

In my homemade setting almost all the vampire gnolls were terminated when the halflings from the Happy Valley asked help to the Rose of...

Making an economy work in the real world is hard enough. Think how magic mixes things up.🤔

Look, we're talking about a teenage girl who stepped up to Dungeon Master for the very first time, running a game for a bunch of adults...