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Like most of these terms we spend so much time arguing about, railroading is fairly easy to define. Most of the arguments come from...

I was at the Gencon in Milwaukee getting my 3.0 PHB. I forget which designers signed it.

My theoretical preference is for the PC and NPC rules to work similarly ar at least very closely so. I however understand that this is...

I like the idea that they don't aerodynamically fly so much as claw their way through the sky. Its less a wing and more a hand. The...

Skill challenges are better understood as a shared fiction generation exercise that allows for player contributions to be digested...

Think I preferred the "crystal film" wings. It was more surreal. For a dragon that lives in a necrotic environment, that glassy...

Right, or do elven children take over the parent's shop so the parent can finally stop making chairs and move on to being an alchemist...

Not directly commenting on the biological determinism in RPGs, but in terms of mechanical limits: for a lot of us, working...

I didn't say "how many assets" I said "what kind of assets". Quantity is a quality but not the only quality. Will "typical" elven...

One aspect of species I'd like addressed is age. The USA would have only seen a few elven generations: the ones here prior to 1776...

So..they need to move 6 spaces along the map without setting off 3 traps to get inside the fortress. Got it. I'm a big mapper. I...

Lot of truth here. Maps are a common way people think. Heck, some people prefer physical books because they build a "map" of the book...

A timeline is just a map of time, rather than a map of physical space, in which case this reduces to a form of map and key. With...

Whispers uses the foes reaction, so its immediate. Great for triggering party AoOs. Booming blade goes bang.

Long running anything are the outliers. Most things are interrupted by life. I have had the fortune of running both 2e & 3e games...