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3 years later and in my social circle of gamers, no one even knows OGL debacle was a thing. Nor do they specially care about it. And...

This whole discussion is one of the reasons i prefer skills based games. Heck, even 3.x D&D based skills are better than 5e "skill"...

Not to be lazy, i just checked ability descriptions in 3.5 PHB and 5e2014 one. 3.5 one is much more defining and goes more in depth...

This assumes they're enjoying it rather than them simply not being able to get around their issues here. I've absolutely seen cases of...

Before I would resort to railroading, I’d just prompt them to make a decision. I’d summarize the options they’re considering and then...

While i get that some people don't like railroading as DM method, i would like to hear opinions on following scenario. You have open...

Having gotten back into TTRPGs in 2014/2015 after 24 years of not playing, I immediately felt it was a golden era. The OGL "crisis" and...

At the end of the day, it's about player buy in. You can be very restrictive and not be accused of railroading if you are open and...

Sure. But it also is a rather common form of railroading.

Ease of access today better than ever. Majority of books for games can be bought legally, often for cheap. And quality of digital...

I don't. I use notebook. Classic A5 format, hard cover ( ones that companies give to business partners as merch goodies), with...

While in my homebrew there are religions, gods themselves are gone. There is outer plane, kind of like afterlife where souls go...

The BioWare “rivers and lakes” or “linear mandatory transit between chapters” along with “semi-open multiple (many optional) quests” is...

Static, because it shows in tangible way how PCs have improved and gotten better at it. So that lock you couldn't open at level 1 is now...

This came up in he Daggerheart General thread and I thought I would move it to its own thread for discussion. In games that havel...