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I’ll point you here to our SRD announcement last May. Our goal was always to get on the other side of the core rulebook releases and SRD...

I don't see "the scope needs to be big" as a battle, I just see it as kind of a constraint on what D&D-as-tragedy can look like. D&D's...

Part of what this means to me is that the tragic arc needs to still be an arc of D&D-scale power. It's not that Juliet drinks poison...

I'm saying that the kind of power that a D&D PC or group of PC's can have at higher levels will make tragedy much, much harder to pull...

More interested if it works or not. Won't happen in real game much but innour 12th level stress test hew was firing a bit usually...

I am in the process of writing some rules (perhaps to sell on the DM's Guild) and I am trying to use the 2024 standard wordings as a...

Seems legit! So far, pretty standard. A little situational, maybe, but with 9 attacks, getting a crit is only a matter of time...

Every tragic character had choices, they were doomed by roleplaying instead of metagaming.

Setting aside the stipulation that acquisition of power (levels, magic items, status, etc.) universally defines a "happy ending"... Are...

It is true that you cannot have tragedy if consequences are not part of the game.

It's a tragic decision of a bad oath whose severity took time to reveal itself. Tragedy isn't limited to an immediate woopsie. Plenty...

Going with the "downfall of someone who could have been better" because of hamartia (a fatal flaw that leads to the hero's eventual...

I played in a game in which the PCs were on a satellite habitat in a decaying orbit. Nothing on the habitat or the planet below had the...

Heroic sacrifices and two-bad-choices are mainstays in heroic fantasy, not to mention corruption and illusion, so there are plenty of...

D&D is marketed as a role playing game, not an adventure game. It is more reasonable for a player to expect to play a role than go on an...