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Personally I find improvising things with consequences for a narrative I want to keep consistent, while also juggling a bunch of rules...

That plus this sums it up. Yes, fundamentally, it's actually easy to do. That's what D&D marketed to the 11-year-old me with a reprint...

@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you...

GMing varies. DMing is as hard as your players make it. Some expect you to know all the rules (like whether a Simulacrum is real or...

I guess it is a bit like everything. I like golf and anyone can be a good golf player- depending on what you think is good. If you...

The imp on my shoulder suggested it, but I decided I like winning less than not being evil.

Ukrainian? Via LA? They have some great covers. This was unfortunately not one of them.

Grr. I'm out. Pandora slipped it into the "Traditional Christmas" playlist. Not cool.

Alot of problems in modern D&D date from various add ons over the years. Some then become the new sacred cows.

Personally I count realism as an important part of any dungeon design, it's not the #1 priority but it does matter. And it's worth...

Aah! "Attacks of opportunity!" I'm starting to see splatbooks as the bane of D&D. This, with Combat and Tactics. Warlocks from...

I'm curious: what makes this a specifically D&D thread? I imagine other games have something to contribute to dungeon-design theory...

As I said on the other thread I don't do dungeon maps (or really dungeons) per se, I use theater of the mind for most exploration. So...

Yes.

You might have inspired a future Modos module about warships: Mobility, Offense, Defense, Or Size Size is related to expense; you can...