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One can talk about IRL battles being morale-based, etc; that touches on the "combat as war" vs " combat as sport" mindsets. Modern DnD...

Yes, to both. But players are risk-averse, they want to succeed- if a bad guy lieutenant escapes, the player is probably thinking that...

The gods can't enter Sigil, supposedly because of the Lady- but maybe he did some finagling there.

Here is my plan to run this campaign, already in progress. Feedback welcome. PCs have the Vecna ritual mark from an altercation...

Selling my Goodman stuff, other than my TSR OARs for the moment, this weekend. Maybe my feelings will change about the company in the...

Quick update…sold my OAR 1,2,3 books on eBay for a combined $330 bucks so thanks for the post on the amount these were going for earlier...

This quote should be bronzed and placed upon the altar of role playing games. We are not our characters.

I don't understand number 2 except from the point of view that as Players we will eliminate fun out of the game if given half a chance...

The jump is part of the 15ft of movement. Your Strength Score is irrelevant to the distance traveled, as the combat maneuver replaces...

That's far narrower than a lot of people using the term mean by it.

Yup. There's a whole other can of worms you open when taking prisoners, and its one that's easy for a GM to mishandle.

Enemies retreating: the players never want to let them do so, and if it's DnD the mechanics are working against the baddies trying to...

I appreciate the mix of standard "go into the Dungeon amd kill the Dragon" models with weird creative choices here: the latter are kind...

In this case, they actually used a sidebar to explain that there is no explanation provided! They could have used the same space to...

There's optimizing and there's optimizing/power gaming. If the player has character power as a primary concern, that isn't wrong in...