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This is a good point and it depends a lot on the specifics of the dungeon. Personally, I'd prefer for a designer to think through why...

I'm a fan of secret doors (and traps, to a point) where you only notice them if a) you're proactively searching and b) your searching...

I went back and read Lanefan's contributions, and I think you are misreading him. Lanefan plays a game that is like mine bizarrely his...

I hope you aren't too offended if I am not that impressed with The Angry DM. There are a lot of nuggets in his essay that are...

Boris the Spider (the Who) - king of the giant spiders Bullroarer (Midnight Oil) - huge bull with a sonic attack Dream Weaver (Gary...

I thought about Man on the Silver Mountain and decided it sounded more like an NPC than a monster. Ditto The Wizard (Uriah Heep), Holy...

Veteran of the Psychic Wars (a psionic soldier?) Chumbawamba (sounds like it might be a chupacabra variant) Pigs on the Wing (flying...

I don't put traps in for their own sake. They get put in scenarios by inhabitants who are trying to defend themselves, and how good they...

It depends. In the general sense a trap made by someone with any level of intelligence and skill won't have a tell. A trap made by...

If henches (and-or other NPCs) can die to traps then PCs can die to traps; never mind that after the first hench dies to a trap no other...

Sorry, but it's the former. Yes. An analogy: Let's say that on my way to work each day there's a little cat I sometimes stop and pat...

Note also this means ex-member of the community not by their own choice, as opposed to those who have simply wandered off (or in some...

More I'm saying "If you're careful and spend the time it takes to search, you give yourself a not-guaranteed chance of making things...

To me there's always an element of luck in D&D, otherwise it wouldn't use dice. And if you're going to use enough dice rolls to in...

Apropos of nothing else, this is the best line I've seen today! :)