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I think you're making some assumptions about what 'most' tables look like. Given that D&D doesn't really scaffold the kinds of...

Oh, wow. What's that like?

Realism doesn't have a ton to add to the trap conversation IMO. They are more fiction than fact, and also heavily tied to the idea of a...

Yeah, while I will often grant automatic success to a Thief (I mostly play Shadowdark) using his crawling turns searching, all bets are...

Happy to use any numbers you want. The math is pretty straightforward. The point is that a 33% casualties does not mean a 66% trap...

Interesting. It seems the word "realistic" is also being used in multiple ways.

It's interesting how different people interpret the question "should traps have tells?". Some variations in this thread: What is...

I expect the players to read my 1 pager if they want to play. If they are a cleric, they choose a deity and are expected to known the...

A lazy, lo-fi approach I've taken in the past is to use the same print out, but hide stuff under sticky notes. As a room is revealed...

Mostly correct, except in that first sentence: not change the fiction...which sounds like it's after-the-fact...but drive the fiction...

Actually, it was a question :-)

My answer to the question is it depends on the system being played. Most of the posts in this thread seem to assume D&D, or a D&D-like...

I run home-brews and do lots of history and backstory, but tend to give everything the PCs really need to remember in an elevator...

For my current Dragonlance game, I expected them to read the setting introduction at the start of Shadows of the Dragon Queen, which is...

This is a real thing. How much do you expect you players to read? Answers from varuious games are all over the place.