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We kinda had this happen in a recent game. A new player, super good friend, who was great fun at roleplaying. But once combat started...

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I've seen the opposite problem as well- the player that refuses to optimize. They have their character and backstory perfectly in mind...

Had something wild (for me) last night, an in-person session 0 just down the road from the house with a bunch of other locals. As noted...

You know who the worst sort of optimizers are? The ones that aren't actually good at optimization themselves, but find OP builds on the...

13, one of which isn’t the same as the others in some obvious and interesting way. It’s Eberron. Has to be a Baker’s Dozen.

Is attrition based play possible in Daggerheart? Of course. You have short rests and long rests. Long rests need to be taken at home and...

Are there other ways to fail? If so, optimize for success under those conditions. If not, and it’s just a low-stakes game then...

Jumping in late on the OSR vibe... Personally, I don’t think it’s useful to try and measure Daggerheart against the “OSR gold standard”...

I woud structure it this way: Part 1 of the book is a broad overview of the setting, highlighting te things that make it special. So an...

Ravenloft -- meaning the domains of dread -- are a giant pile of potential frames, given how frames are focused. This brings up an...

Folks love to blame optimization as an issue, but really its a person recognizing their own interests and matching and/or compromising...

Adventure Hook: Overnight all the half-elves and half-orcs have disappeared from the Sword Coast. Everyone knows a local strange cabal...

RAW, the half-elf race from the 2014 PHB or the SCAG works, with the notable and unfortunate exception of it losing its total of +4...

The decision to remove the half-elf and half-orc was a stupid ass decision, so I've elected to ignore it. Half-orcs use the orc species...