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Characters staying in play when their player misses a session is SOP here and has been forever, mostly to keep the fiction consistent...

As xp are (in theory) an abstraction of the idea of gained experience through learning and doing - i.e. memory - then this idea works...

Characters get xp, not players. If a player misses a session but the character is still in play, it gets xp as normal. But if the...

My groups would be level 20 before the sentence fully left my mouth.

If the bolded is to be consistent with itself across the entirety of the fiction then those minion Ogres have one hit point no matter...

OK, then, how else do you explain, preferably in a not-too-gamist manner, the monster-construction mechanics that say Bob the Ogre has...

How are character and-or player turnover in a long-term campaign handled in such a set-up? Do retired (or temporarily dead)...

It's the age-old problem of sieges. If you have the resources inside--or can get them through unblocked routes, such as a siege only by...

If cinematics happen, they happen, but I'm not going to try to force them. Persuasion can be, and I include offer of paid employment...

This reminds me of a debate I once had several years ago with someone about the tactical options that PCs use when assaulting a dungeon...

"Not that type of game" in that PCs don't do (or are prevented from doing) any pre-scouting or info-gathering before wading in to a...

If their presence makes sense given the surrounding fiction, I've got no problem with this. But if the PCs have reason to believe...

We're not talking May 5th to June 5th, though; we're talking May 5th at 2:43 p.m. he has five thugs when the combat starts and at 2:44...

If you're running a level-appropriate canned module, do you run the combats as written or do you tweak them on the fly? Why, though...

When done on the fly, I don't like the idea of adjustments. When done in advance, e.g. beefing up or toning down a canned module...