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And not being gatekeepy. Picking creators to highlight (and, by definition, creators not to highlight) is never a good idea if you are...

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There’s something foundational here that tends to go unexamined: not why campaigns end early, but why the game assumes they should run...

I don’t have any actual data, but my personal experience was that the longest* D&D campaign I’ve ever participated in was a 4e game. We...

Yeah... Character generation focus is a 4th generation 2000s thing! Certainly not the focus of AD&D 2e's Complete series of: Book of...

To steer this thread in less weird direction than nitpicking about players forgetting items... It was a good, instructive moment when...

Yuppers. Even the scant examples he gives don't support his thesis. He talks about bullet point / control panel layout being examples...

While I get what this article is going for, something about it doesn’t sit right. It frames the whole hobby as if D&D and its direct...

D&D was a hard habit for me to break. It was my main game for decades. I’ve been through every edition. By the time I stepped away, both...

This is actually very close to what’s written in the Daggerheart Core Rulebook—page 20 lays it out directly in the “Creating Your...

I think it was the Campaign Frames that finally sold me on Daggerheart—or at least convinced me to buy in and explore what it was really...

I cannot see who everyone is arguing against, likely a result of the ignore function, but I get the sense that the argument being had is...

Through three sessions it hasn't been an issue for our group. All of the players make it a point to ensure that everyone has a turn and...

There's some self balancing going on as well. A "spotlight hog" will run out of resources pretty quick and naturally draw the bulk of...

And then GM can facilitate this by on their turn tee up something towards a player who hasn't acted yet, giving them a natural hook in...