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What about when the game steps in to cover for player lack of skill? (Maybe the answer to the OP is, "what the designers say is...

The same thing we do every year, Pinky . . . It's a little early to resolve, but I should probably get a CRPG demo out. Full game is...

Finish the 2 adventures I was working on for Shadowdark, polish up the classes, add a few more, and try and get it all into a book.

I mostly agree, except I really like henchmen dying to traps...which is very cinematic...as a tell. 100% agree here. Which is why I...

It's a trap! I think this thread is trying to catch people from the "We Don't Need Thieves" thread contradicting themselves. So I'll...

From a game perspective, yes, of course traps should have tells. These are games about choices. Without choices to make, traps are just...

My big takeaway was that each person doesn't get younger/older, relative to each other. Alice ages more. But yes, I guess Alice had...

Sabine Hossenfelder says they're not actually paradoxes. And that the faster moving/accelerating person is the one who takes the longer...

I knew ENWorld was cool, but I didn't know that Facebook is that bad. I guess I could have assumed as much about Xwitter. Thanks for...

I recently watched Matt Colville's long video about finding an online community in the TTRPG space, and I wanted to share a thought I...

Players like rewards. That's cool. If they're rewarded by the GM, and not a deity-NPC, I would expect them to be for metagame stuff or...

The only time I ever gamed with someone that used “negative karma” in his games was back in the early 90s. He called them “dummy points”...

Okay, so it's a meta currency. Nothing particularly unique about that. Some systems have it, some don't. Awarding negative meta...

1. Hmm. I'm preparing for a semi-monthly campaign. If it hits 60 sessions, that's, what, two and a half years? Is the idea that too...

I had been talking about this with a bunch of friends lately. I have decided I will never play D&D ever again. And nothing like it...