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That's true. We started work in early 2011 on what 5e could be. At the same time, I had to make the case that: Having an active...

That's because discussion of 5.5 is an Orwellian hellscape where up is down, bad is good, and more complicated is simplified. I'll...

WotC has an obvious interest to paint it in the best light possible however, so a bit of skepticism is warranted. The problem is that...

For any edition or sub-edition, good sales for the core three books are essential. If they don't sell, nothing else in that edition is...

Simple-ish solution: when they split, if the group of three are intending to wait while the two go exploring, ask up front how long the...

Depends whether they're on a time crunch or not. But indeed, strip it all down to the studs is a common SOP. :)

Are you sure you're playing D&D? I've never once seen a group of adventurers stop searching just because they found the McGuffin. There...

Well, ideally we'd be using straight-line measures and not counting squares on a grid in the first place. :) Snapping everything to...

Not sure about that, as 3e did its clunky best to make itself at least sim-friendly. By 4e, though, they'd given up any pretensions of...

Well, we just found out one more hazard of online play: the DM has a power cut in his neighbourhood, 1.5 hours so far and counting. In...

It's a matter of expectations. If they know up front that if they split the party they'll also be splitting the players (and my...

On that, I would very much agree. I have multiple players I’ve played with for a decade-plus who have no engagement with TTRPGs at all...

There's people I've played with for ages who I'd still describe - and who would probably self-describe - as casual.

You're lucky. Last time I looked for it here - admittedly quite a while ago - one place had it at a ridiculous price and the others...

Gridded flipchart paper is good but can get costly in a hurry, and isn't as easy to find these days as it once was.