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I just wrapped a 4 month long pirate arc in my home campaign, and here's how I handled it: 1. The PCs were crew but it was obvious...

I think that's definitely one of the two ways to start the campaign. The other, is that you start for whatever reason as part of the...

My concern is more one of preventing the loudest or most enthusiastic (or, at some tables, most competitive) player(s) from just taking...

Really depends on the adventure. For some of them, particularly at low level, what you say is true. For others, a lot depends on party...

I think that's a table-by-table thing, and even maybe player-by-player. Some just want to fight everything that moves. Others will do...

As any OS player will tell you, the goal of D&D is to circumvent encounters in order to attain gold while using as little resources as...

I think you've just identified the primary overarching problem with modern society in a single sentence. People forget how to play...

Are the products in question supposed to be "grown out of"? Are we supposed to stop playing (and buying) when we cease to be teenagers...

I'd argue the same, and it's a huge difference. A game marketed to 20-somethings can include adult or off-colour content and doesn't...

True, but there's nothing good about getting invested in an game for decades and being told (over and over again it seems) that they...

This still raise more questions than it answers, though: --- "the GM offers [someone the option to act immediately]". It's completely...

I parsed "a game dying" or "a game being lost" to mean an individual table or group ceasing play and disbanding. Which, worldwide...

First, GW must die. Then we must take out the Wizards. Once our minions are in place, the time will be ripe to unleash the Kraken -...

There was a lot of the bolded going around in the late 1990s-early 2000s as people thought back on their 1e days in the early 80s. WotC...

OK so we add a chapter on crafting razors of mithral and the legendary Seven Blades of Gillette the Smooth