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Odd, in that the more dice you roll at once the less random (i.e. more predictable) the result is likely to be; the law of averages will...

The players will vote out the challenge of the game. Designers have to sneak it back in. Basically fans have to accept a weakness for...

Agreed all round. Change "fun" to "challenge" in that last quote and you're bang on right.

Same here, though it's toned down somewhat from the as-written UA version.

In an adventure module I'm only after content and reference. If the writing is good enough (by which I mean both readable enough and...

Oh, I use them, but not always. I just got done running (most of) H2 Bloodstone Mines after a string of homebrew adventures, and the...

Corner case exception: the player who is thinking of becoming a DM and buys a module to see how the sauce is made. That, and many times...

This makes a lot of really bad assumptions about the content being fundamentally different when the main difference is presentation. The...

It works for me - the statues could be quite worn and weathered yet their species still be obvious; and the days of "somewhat...

I agree. Likewise with the comment someone else made about designing it to avoid the wheels falling off or whatever. The fact that...

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...