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Same here, only dialled to eleven. When I start a campaign it's with the intent of it going on for (by modern standards) ages, and so...

The rather large advantage of writing - even more so if the "writing" consists of nigh-indelible carvings in stone or metal - is that it...

I don't consider those sessions wasted in the slightest, for a string of reasons: --- having to introduce their character in-character...

As often with your posts, a glimpse for me into an incomprehensible alternate dimension of TTRPGing!

Right. People are talking about broad learning being good, and it is. It does help you be better. So does narrow focus, though...

For me, it tends to come across as very strongly implying that a metric crapton of experience in one area (say, D&D) doesn't count for...

The same reason walking 10 miles is harder than walking 100 yards: success is guaranteed, but it takes more effort.

Alot of it isnt any worse than digital art in general. Better than some.

Factual history, such as who reigned when and what years the red comet appeared, should be fairly reliable in any society a) whose...

I've often had that sort of disparity among players, and my answer has always been to just neutrally run whatever I was going to run...

It was weekly for the first year or two, then very intermittent for a year or two, then weekly for a while, then twice weekly (too many...

There's ways to make this highly believable in the fiction, however. One I used was that each of the PCs, being a neophyte looking to...

I recently re-read Blood of Elves from the Witcher series and was struck by how it started. A dozen travelers sharing a campfire on the...

Learning experience, after a certain point, is no longer the point. Familiarity and comfort is. A DM who has run 1000 sessions of D&D...

If her left arm was real instead of mechanical, that artificer would be one of the best Gnome portraits I've ever seen. As for how...