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What's really ironic about this paragraph is Middle Earth is a setting of despair, where things are not fundamentally good, and in fact...

Not to get too political, but a lot of us are very literally having our human rights taken away right now. If you’re not feeling the...

Community building is such an under-utilized concept in TTRPGs when it have such a strong thematic component to any given campaign

I literally alternate these tones monthly. We're doing Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, which my group jumped at, as an...

This is a long and somewhat rambling essay. Recent World Events have gotten me thinking about worldbuilding and the nature of D&D...

One of the things I've become convinced of is that we don't need a list of 18 unique skills. D&D 2014 had something called "background...

Found the alternate covers that join together she was talking about. Cool enough.

I strongly prefer this make-it-your-own approach to settings. Lore-hoarders are going to lore-hoard. They will build their dedicated...

RE: Upscaling blast spells, honestly I don’t think this needs fixing. I’m ok with casting spells that are natively higher level being...

Moreover, if upcasting was an optimal strategy for D&D damage spells, then why have the upper level damage spells at all? Just introduce...

One of the issues, I think, is that this runs up against how a lot of DMs design their combats. I am probably only going to have like...

And, there is another point. When the game isn't designed for people who optimize, it means that the rest of us can pick it up and play...

I still think fireballs are really powerful. I've played close to a thousand 5e games in the past ten years and no one has ever been...

That and information. In MtG, it's rare that a counterspell comes out of nowhere. You know what colors your opponent is playing, and...

I think he was more saying how some classes assumed a offense or defense or utility buff at certain levels so when you were designing a...