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Any use of a weapon or aimed spell has the same chance of fumbling in our system, usually* 1/d20 confirmed by 1/d6. This applies to...

Why does the misfire rate double from 5% to 10% here? For me, if you misfire 5% of the time per attack at one attack per round you...

You ain't seen my wild magic surge tables, have you? :) Yes, spells can backfire; usually on interruption, but you can also fumble with...

More times you shoot unreliable pre-industrial age gun, more times it breaks. Makes sense to me.

About 3/4 of the items in the "Unknowns" list are fairly easy to categorize into something that already exists. Hydras are an oddball...

Stuff like that is hard to tell if it is going to impact play. I find as a GM while there might be a set plan for the BBEG, having his...

If I am going to tie lore into the adventure without it being necessary for the adventure, then I want it to be an easter egg. E.g...

How about: Put a very brief history/backstory at the beginning of the adventure that only has the essential information the GM will...

I'll tell you what, my friends: I've read probably 100+ modules over my decades of gaming, but I'm writing my first one, and it is an...

Things that make modules easier to run: --- detached maps, preferably on cardstock, a la many of the earlier TSR modules. Bonus points...

Hey, I'll happily cop to being lazy, in that if there's two ways of doing the same thing to the same result I'll almost always choose...

Each edition changed quite a bit between the start and end of its run. Comparing at-release 1e with at-release 2e is IMO valid, as is...

The biggest source of xp in 2e was defeating monsters. My memory is that the story xp stuff was optional.

The chance of misfiring within a given round gets higher but it's ironclad sure that's not what they were looking at. Instead they were...

Forgive me...