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Just wait until they make contact, have to drop rucks and run ... what did they leave behind? How far are they from resupply?

Welcome, one and all, to the 2025 IRON DM Tournament. Eight contestants enter the arena. One emerges as the IRON DM 2025. To keep down...

This . . . looks like a typo. But it's probably not. . . . is a wagon. Fortunately for GMs, wagons don't roll everywhere!

I love this logistical stuff but it definitely seems unpopular with players, who prefer the fantastical heroism of carrying everything...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. This mantra echoes through the mind of any experienced backpacker, a constant negotiation between...

The PCs can decide, sure. But it's more interesting to me if I'm finding something that I haven't invented.

It doesn't even have to be choices. Just provide interest. This is what I gathered from Numenera: the goal of the game is to learn...

There's a flipside to that. Getting a crit on the enemy just to realize that the enemy didn't notice is a bit of a buzzkill.

Pretty much. I bet someone could abstract it out, like for a game theory course, but I doubt it would hit the points that OP wants.

The short answer is: no. Such a framework doesn't exist. If you start reading threads about game "design" or "theory" it will quickly...

If I'm reading you right, Modos RPG is set up to do this. The rules are modular and catalogued, so any variant has its own subset of...

Ah. And it had WAR, who's awesome.

I'll get back to you after I figure out how "D&D PbtA" works.

Wasn't it just D&D 3 with a Combat Maneuver Bonus?

1) Reduce options. It's OK to have pregen characters, as long as you can sum up what they're "about" in a sentence or two. That said...