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Eberron Artificer, Old vs New While I won't be doing a full review of Forge of the Artificer, at the very least I figured to cover its...

I prefer some telegraphing for traps. I also think it's more interesting. I don't like gotchas, nor do I like groups spending a month of...

100% agree. Give the players choices at some point in the process. Part of that might be letting them know there is a trap and let them...

Yes and no. It depends what you’re using them for. But the essence is that a trap is meant to be interacted with. That’s the key thing...

As someone who has Traveller from a humble bundle and has never played it, but is eyeing Starfinder 2e, I find this mildly intriguing.

During the d20 glut in the early 2000s, d20 Call of Cthulhu was a game nobody asked for and a lot people did not want. It was a...

What's confusing for me is that if you are talking about 5e on the Citizens of the Imperium forum, or with anyone else who already knows...

The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules! All of Traveller's key activities...

What don't you like about actual plays? I ask because there are 2 I'm listening to that are way more like listening to an audio drama...

2025 had surprises planned for me, so my goals of this year have all been shifted. I can pretty much list what I aimed to do in 2025. I...

Separate from creative work, there are a bunch of games I want to find the time to run for at least 6-12 sessions this coming year...

The same thing we do every year, Pinky . . . It's a little early to resolve, but I should probably get a CRPG demo out. Full game is...

The players have an incentive to keep up on this stuff - it affects the capabilities of their characters. It's no loss to me as DM if...

As the DM, I don't keep track of any of that stuff. Once found, it's on the players to keep track of it.

I have one player do the secretary thing and I glance at the results at the end of a session. My job is to build and run adventures, not...