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Yeah, I'm on that train as well, and in my group we railroad at times, just to keep things moving along. And sometimes play is...

Aside from an intuitive dislike of deceptions, why does it matter? Is the worry that players having enjoyed the illusion will later...

To me, a campaign (despite the way WotC wants us to see it) consists of more than one single closed-ended adventure path. For me, one...

Yes, that's a big concern. Except there are always ongoing win (or, more correctly, advantageous) conditions. Greater wealth, greater...

This tangentially brings up another big difference between 1e-era play and today: party size. In 1e, parties of 8 or 10 characters were...

I think the benefit is indirect. Not that one wants disparate levels for their own sake, but one might want to be able to bring in new...

Yeah, I'm to the point where I almost just throw stuff at 'em and see how they handle it. And it's completely unpredictable. Two...

Yup, another thing I don't like: worrying about "level appropriate encounters."

If there's player turnover within a campaign, some long-standing players might be put out of joint if a new player can bring in a PC at...

Thing is, if you remove those other "loss conditions" you get 5e, where the only remaining loss condition is PC death. Now if you also...

Although I appreciate a lot of things that most people would consider old school, different level/XP totals is not one of them. I also...

I am very fond of a mixed level party. It is one of the things I like about Adventurers League.

In theory the 5e concept of bounded accuracy should work to significantly flatten the overall power curve, thus making mixed-level...

The magic weapons selection in the 1e DMG is woefully incomplete, given the vast variety of weapons the game has otherwise and the fact...

The trouble is that the same practices can make play less or more fun dependent on the person or circumstances. If I am so lucky to get...