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A mechanical tinker. Builds small weapons like automatons, self-driving catapult, and walking bombs. A martial artist. Powerful hands...

You’re not going to get good data. Your method as proposed in this thread will only show you how YOU interact with your system. That’s...

If all you're doing is discussing the game you're going to sell, then you are marketing your game. If you come and knock on my door...

I'm afraid you are operating under a misapprehension. The denizens here are familiar, between them, with a large fraction of the...

Almost all rpg rules limit what a GM can do, whether things like how many hp a PC has before can be taken down, how spells cast by or...

Musing that touches on rules, verisimilitude, realism, what the characters experience in the world, and not wanting to change sacred...

If the fact that most people only play D&D for a year (whether that's true or not) in no way proves or indicates that there a...

I didn't question your ability to express yourself. I am presenting a counter-argument - we should not cordon off an entire style of...

Not at all. It's a DM who abuses his authority. He railroads. He drops dragons when irritated. And so on. It's not when you are...

There are a number of entertainments that folks (in the US, at least) take up in their adolescent/teen years, carry on for a couple/few...

Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Virginia, claims to have been struck by lightning 7 times. Does that mean that being struck by lightning...

City of Thieves was always my favorite, but Forest of Doom and Scorpion Swamp were my second favorite. The Dungeoncrawling ones were...

City of Thieves is fantastic and probably way more influential on fantasy RPGs than it's given credit for. (I think Americans generally...

These are the first five published in this new format. They intend to do another five which I assume will be numbered 6-10. According...