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And, I would argue that it's even more than just making a bad choice. Tragedy has to be largely preventable. It's the character who is...

A tragedy is any adventure where the protagonist(s) make bad choices. Thus, you cannot "do" tragedy in D&D without restricting player...

A potential nuance to this convo: If tragedy isn't something we can really inflict on a PC, how might we do a campaign with the theme...

Yeah see that’s the thing. A bad thing happens is maybe tragic but not a tragedy. A tragedy as in genre tragedy means that there is no...

The closest I got was in a "flashback" game I ran for a group I was normally a player in. Every once in a while the players would take a...

I'm OK drawing with a fairly broad brush, so I'd say anything from classic Greek tragedy to Shakespearean tragedy to modern tragedies...

So, let's talk genre in D&D. One of the harder genres to splice into the heroic fantasy of standard D&D is tragedy. To evoke the...

I DM’d Age of Worms for levels 1-20 over about 2 years. We had a Twilight Cleric, a Paladin, A Transmuter and a Rogue. Some things we...

I don't really count random tables as lore. The tables might add a lot, but the 5.5e MM still has less lore than 5e. 2e had a lot of...

Here's my take: Lore is mechanics. Combat stats should not be the whole of a monster's mechanics. There's no such thing as a...

Convenience is King, and Project Sigil never gave off an air of convenience. It always seemed like whale-bait at best to me - maybe a...

5e combat can be rather quick, if you want it quick. But you need to pick, do you want challenging tactical fight or you want quick and...