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Numenera falls into this camp, right? It's post-apocalyptic Earth, isn't it?

What a great pick up! His blog is an invaluable resource for TTRPG designers.

Paul Hughes from Blog of Holding has joined MCDM full time. No stranger to working with MCDM and on MCDM projects he introduces himself...

Wouldn't be surprised if he's taking on more of the responsibilities that James Introcaso had been in charge of before moving off of...

Because in response to my post saying that with D&D combat you need to hold your nose and accept that it's going to have significant...

I think it was one mummy lord and two mummies. We are level 7, with five player characters. Level 7 is rather early to get a Holy...

Definitely, though a holy avenger is a legendary weapon only attuneable by a paladin... so to be going up against mummies at a level...

One of the (gulp!) good things about D&D is that its prevalence makes it easy to playtest. If there's one rule or mechanism you want to...

Interesting - agree, many parts of the spells effect seems very appropriate. Modifying slightly... Surprised but Wins Initiative If a...

Hey there Silam, Depends on the power of the god. For starters you have Hero-deities and Quasi-deities (Divine Ranks 1 and 2...

Infinite Level scaling worked in 1st Edition (I should know I played up to Level 117), because the benefits of each level beyond a...

I mean, I was kinda thinking of using d20 as a base, but as I noted, it's a half-formed idea, and defaulting to D&D as an example was...

Yeah that's a fine idea. You could make it simple and say that the surprisers are Slow that first free round. So they get AN attack...

I've definitely run surprise 5e14 RAW, and I've house-ruled it on the fly, and I've basically said "ok you, the fighter, get advantage...

Back to the OP (original premise in this case): I find the narrative dissonance of, say, getting shot, and then standing around while...