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For a long while, the monster with the most kills in classic WoW was the Defias Pillager, a fairly common NPC enemy found in one of the...

Before the first expansion, the human city in WoW - Stormwind - reachable at level 1, contained a black dragon and their minions that...

On the subject of Encounters and Bypassing them - instinctively as a GM I think of "bypassing" to mean avoiding a fight - there's an...

Yes - essentially within the described zone I had plotted out cover and so on, outside of it I was improvising. It felt to me as the GM...

In this case the PCs didn't end up having a combat on the battlemap as I'd prepared - they instead made use of stealth and illusions to...

To give a simple example of the potential conflict between prep and agency I'd like to offer an encounter from a recent 5e game. The...

I think that's probably the more likely cause, but you could also see how this could very plausibly flow from principles based on the...

I mean, the example I gave here (WHFRP) is one of the first roleplaying games ever produced - it'll be 40 years old next year and the...

I'd largely agree with this - consider if you'd been running this in, say, WFRP, @Enrahim. In this case the rules of the game provide...

The trigger is "When you hit a creature", so yes, by default

5e Battlemaster - Menacing Attack. To a lesser extent Goading Attack

I'm not sure that follows, all it needs is for the railroading to be being done by an entity in the game world. A high level caster...

If I'm designing a new game or indeed just a mod map for Oblivion, I'll want to consider the first case - control systems are important...

Coming off watching a bunch of Poriot recently, in a Christie style mystery there often isn't a clear deductive through line to a single...