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Since the rules don't give you an attack for each limb, I think the only possible downside would be maybe using two versatile weapons at...

I've greatly enjoyed Bob's Forgotten Realms books over the years, but this just seems like a very obvious Mary Jane character, who will...

Not to go too far off topic, but on the Indomitable topic, I'm sure the buffed 2024 version does have an effect on encounter balance...

damn it Matt.

It's more fun when you are more powerful than the other PCs. It's less fun when you are weaker than them. So balance is important. Of...

Yes, you can have a combat between a beastmaster ranger with his pet wolf, a shepherd druid with 8 summoned pixies, a necromancer and...

Wow. You even see things like that come up in party games like Codenames. You'll give a clue that, you think, links pretty much...

Agreed. 9 times out of 10, what I considered to be obvious and simple to me was not so to the players. I’ve felt that over explanation...

Even the creative solution used as an example was the application of something on the player's character sheet...

Food is a classic trap

Even in OSR games, oftentimes the answer IS on your character sheet. There's nothing wrong with engaging with the mechanics of the game...

I think that it also has changed over the editions. 5e characters have soo many more options from 1e days where they now have feats and...

If your game gives players a sheet full of stuff to look at, but relying on that sheet creates unsatisfying play, either you built the...

"Answer not on character sheet" is often tossed around like its universal, but its not. In a game like 3E/PF1 where a character has lots...

I mean, was it? I'm guessing "No" because, for my money, that's deeply bizarre and counter-intuitive, not "very simple". It also...