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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Are we allowed to call principles what we like? Like Blorb, for example? Secondarily, it's entirely possible for the game to be being...
Yesterday at 10:50 PM
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So, stop engaging about it? If you aren't interested, just drop the topic?
Yesterday at 7:23 PM
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And how in the first use of the term, spell levels and character levels are not the same thing or gained at the same rates (in all but...
Yesterday at 2:49 PM
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What does level mean?
Yesterday at 2:38 PM
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I'd agree with that - I think it's probably possible to come up with "worst practices" but I don't think best practices would be...
Yesterday at 1:57 PM
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Or alternatively it's advice against certain styles of GMing, for example "soft railroading" where successes aren't honoured because...
Yesterday at 8:32 AM
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Right - this is something that makes sense in the context of games in a specific context where leveraging certain types of power alters...
Yesterday at 12:10 AM
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We could for example be trying to evoke a certain genre - in 7th Sea for example it cost build points to have character flaws but you...
Sunday at 8:31 PM
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Depending on the household, certainly. The cook may well not be involved in serving the food at all, that may well be the job of other...
Thursday at 4:45 PM
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I mean, you are asking him to coin new jargon here rather than using well understood terms from outside of the hobby - given the general...
Jul 1, 2025
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As an aside on the crumbling cliff thing - why would we narrate such a thing in the first place? We know it's to provide a narrative...
Jun 27, 2025
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It doesn't even need to be a sustained period - given how short 5e levels 1 and 2 can be in terms of encounters it's very...
Jun 27, 2025
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Agreed, though it's fairly trivial to conceive of a situation whereby the knocking off of the mask is the salient thing (perhaps it is...
Jun 26, 2025
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I think the point here is that the GM has to agree with the stakes first - it's not that the roll is made and then on a success the...
Jun 26, 2025
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It's been a while, but I think it was the party was stuck outside a secret door and the adventure couldn't continue till they found it...
Jun 25, 2025
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