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Exceptional in this case would seem to imply "stands out like a sore thumb" among its people. Another thing to consider is whether the...

Which is fine, but then there'd be light in the kitchen both for the cook to see by and from any cook-fires she had going. Odds are...

That's just how that DM ran it: tough challenges to which he wasn't going to give you the answers. The riddle was an oddity in that...

It's taken a whole lot o' practice, to be sure, but these days I rarely goof up when reading or paraphrasing notes unless the notes...

I must have missed this the first time round. If memory serves (this happened in about 1992), there was quite a bit of laughter along...

The bolded is in itself a fairly big assumption. IME, let it happen. Aimless wandering only goes on for so long*, and then the players...

The problem that I, personally, have with this (and which is only a problem because of the style of play I'm generally looking for, and...

Thing is, that clock would have run out at the same in-game time no matter what the PCs were doing. The only difference is that had...

Last time I checked, Yahtzee ain't a role-playing game. :)

A failed lockpick check. ;)

I think generally that's good advice, but not as an absolute like that rule implies. I've had players have their PCs try something...

It can, if-when the binary is more like a sliding scale where, when possible and always highly malleable depending on specific...

I don't see a made save as being damage on a miss - you're still hit by the spell's effect, otherwise you'd not need to save and would...

Naw, I'm not offended (we're talking about TTRPGs on the internet and you're not telling me I suck at running the game I've been devoted...

My games don't look all that much like @Lanefan's but saying that they're playing wrong if it's their preferred style isn't great...