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I have a fondness for Xonthal's Tower in Rise of Tiamat. They handled the maze in a way that appeals to me, as a series of encounters to...

@Hussar And i will politely disagree. I think that skills that make good player or DM are system agnostic and lot of them are basic...

TTRPGs are probably only hobby in which people constantly talk about needing to branch out and try other games and it makes no sense at...

But I want level 1 to have some features for a subclass. Yes yes multiclassing, but the problem there is that WotC didn't remove or...

I think you're missing a key point here, which is that 10-year-olds are usually DM'ing for other 10-year-olds, who are not as demanding...

What about being an average DM is difficult? Understand enough of the rules, understand enough of the adventure, have enough social...

No, it isn't. It just takes practice. It takes being allowed to fail.

More like adults are less tolerant of the learning process. DMing is a skill, and you can’t pick up any skill and immediately be good at...

@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you...

One of the things I really dislike that has come out of the rise of popularity of D&D (and to some degree other RPGs; but let's be...

You are, of course, right.

Read it? Yes of course Tolkien mistrusts the powerful. The thing that makes Gandalf and Galadriel good people is that they distrust...

Look at it this way: they've already gotten people with disposable income on the internet to give them three hundred thousand dollars...

I often do the potato farmer story. Hard but happy childhood with living parents, a first born with many siblings. But, it's not for...

I'd like to introduce you to the (claimed) life story of one Quintus Horatius Flaccus, aka Horace, one of the great poets of ancient...