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A "Cradle of Filth" is a cool name for a Mimic pretending to be an innocent pram (stroller).

Our next project has just been announced! And it is a bit different... but hopefully 'Totally Awesome'! Click here to learn more about...

I couldn't tell you what they're doing to nail the Traveller vibe, but leaving proficiency bonus+feats+levels is scary enough to keep...

Played through the demo and had a blast, even though a few combats felt very BD&D with their flurry of misses. The exploration...

Yeah, demo was fun, and appropriately frustrating for a B/X game, lol.

And thank you for reminding me to go back and finish watching this (which I am doing currently). I am grateful when posters can hear and...

You don't have to learn new rules. That's a big deal to some people, particularly folk that joined ttrpgs with DnD5e and haven't played...

Although I think it was my post in another thread that started this, reading this thread I'll acknowledge (top of the hat to @Lanefan...

Oh, right. I thought we’d already done this. Yep. It’s well trodden ground...

Sure. There are some circumstances where that absolutely works. Traps that are old, not well maintained, abandoned, etc. But that's not...

You can have both easily enough. Even a well-designed and well-hidden trap might be given away through the inevitable decline of...

From a game perspective, yes, of course traps should have tells. These are games about choices. Without choices to make, traps are just...

That's a fair point, I think of 5e as high-powered because of the player characters' ability to punch well above their weight class...

Wow, good find! Here's its Steam page, there's a demo on there. Release date... some time in 2026 :)

There was a "T20" in the 3.5/D20 era (in fact it's sitting on my shelf as we speak), so it only seems fair!