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Designing to 20 looks pretty open-ended from the perspective of someone only playing to 12; even more so if some ongoing arithmetical...

Sneaky, tricksy little hobbitses!

How so?

I'd always thought that Hobbits were expunged from D&D by the end of the 1970s. But learned yesterday that this is not the case! REF4...

If it's not on paper, it doesn't count. Paper first, then a digital version that's exactly the same. And page count is highly relevant...

If I write it out now then a) it's easier to run because I'm not making it up on the fly, b) I've got it if I ever want to run it again...

The DM running out of steam and-or duct tape is a symptom of the underlying loss of wheels, not the cause. For me, all it needs is a...

That works too Just not back to 3 saves. 3 is too low of a number. It's too easy to game.

Perhaps fortunately, I'm not designing cars. :) The inherent problem with any open-ended and complex progression system is that there's...

Even when I'm the one who wrote the module I'm still reading it as I run it; it's not like I memorize the whole thing (if I could I...

How do you do that without presenting the same information twice, though? Duplication is wasted page space, and also runs the risk of...

I'm not so sure about the bolded. A point-form timeline can be every bit as readable and far easier to understand (and, at the table...

I think you're conflating quantity of content vs. presentation. As an example of what I want, take that four page history of a...

While I favor published modules and adventures that keep an eye to presentation and information design in mind, I feel like there is...

Sometimes it's there so that if the PCs make inquiries the DM has something to fall back on and isn't left trying to make something up...