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I'm definitely in the camp where combat encounters tend to be an organic thing whose particulars are decided by the narrative. I don't...

When Morrus first offered me this role, I took it begrudgingly. I wasn't sure I could handle the organizational weight of running a...

Balance is tricky. At some point, the GM assumes the players will play their characters a certain way. When the players(it only takes...

In 40-odd years I have found there is one way, and one way only, to do this reliably -- get a feel for the game and your group and learn...

If there are, I'm not sure I'd want to play them. For the rules of a D&D-like to guarantee tough, but not deadly, encounters...

That’s gonna be the name of my next Cantina band.

Is that a contradiction or a realization the "medieval" is a form of post-apocalyptic setting? Go back to the 400s. The Roman...

Are these harsh realities, or just the norm in medieval settings? Maybe not. But the dinosaurs' apocalypse led to the threat of...

You know what's scary? A computer virus. Any number of bad things could come from it. Speaking of malware, the internet isn't such a...

Is anyone else a little surprised that AI isn't being used more often to replace humans in leadership roles? It doesn't understand...

There's definitely a lack of understanding. That's why they invented dark matter and dark energy.

lol. But, what I meant was the answer doesn’t explain very much. I find that things don’t expand to be fine. Just saying that bound...

We need to ask the important questions like... How many characters has he killed as a DM? How does he describe 50 HP in damage? How...

I usually like to figure out the over-arching themes that I want the campaign to focus on, and hard-wire them into the first adventure...

There's a lineup of people in a dungeon. Naked, in chains, trembling. Master Blaster (or their look-alikes) walks along the line...