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Wait, no, if this were ported to dnd you would have an additional layer of features that aren't about dungeons and combat. You don't...

No. The game as cooperative storytelling. with an expectation that every combat (or at least most) will be challenging and interesting.

Yes. As I said upthread, that is how I do it.

The Video for the RPG On a side note, this should be interesting. Neon Odyssey was released (I think) 2.5 years ago as a VR game by...

I had a thought recently that a way tomake different campaigns with the same game feel different would be to give a second role to every...

Trading initiative doesnt give you the surprised condition, it just means you go later.

My answer is because the game as played today is not meant to be a simulation of skirmish warfare or tactics. Maybe in the past it was...

Well, in ambush you just use those reactions the moment initiative has been rolled and round 1 starts. Then you do not have a reaction...

Imo that is a solid basis of a support pillar of the ranger class, which it should have more strongly. Survival, stealth, athletics...

@mearls has a neat approach in his Moldvay project, where he's given the ranger the ability to grant their Stealth result to allies. I...

I personally give advantage on attacks against surprised creatures in round one, and the condition ends at the end of the round. Also...

They arent using either. They are allowing the opening attack to be the thing that causes initiative. That doesnt mean anyone loses a...

There has to be an inciting incident that calls for the initiative roll. If it is an ambush, I give the ambusher a single action that...

Ultraviolet Grasslands is probably my favorite science-fantasy game. Definitely fits in the post-apoc sub-genre.

The sci-fi genre in the entertaiment industry has got a serious handicap: It ages very poorly and becomes obsolete relatively quickly...