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Or discovering the back of a secret door. Not all secret doors are secret from both sides.

Ah, no. You couldn't automatically detect traps or secret doors in TSR versions of D&D. You've misremembered the rules and are...

Map design should facilitate looking for secrets -- secret doors, hidden alcoves, traps, etc... -- by enticing the players to wonder why...

Old adventures often assumed you were always consciously looking for traps and secret doors. I seem to recall the baseline was it took...

Secret areas, and secret doors (possibly between known areas, but enhancing manueverability). Jennell Jaquays' Borshak's Lair, I'm...

Ah, verisimilitude in setting vs game play - the conflict of the ages within D&D. Do the monsters (or lord of the castle) live in a...

I'm the other way around: I despise 5-square maps (except when the area being mapped is very small) because I hate having to count all...

Alot of problems in modern D&D date from various add ons over the years. Some then become the new sacred cows.

All of this is a rather sad commentary on later-edition D&D, IMO. All very well until those minor spells etc. fail or are dispelled. I...

In a game where xp are given individually for what a character does (as opposed to what ideas it comes up with that others then carry...

Are you talking about adding say a "mechanical system" to social interactions (beyond just standard skill checks?) So RPGs should...

When the domain management was big, the effects of spells like Teleport and Wish were much more subject to DM whim. These spells...

There is a very easy way to solve such problems such as access to material components or controlling which spells a player can learn. I...

Wizard partisans don't argue their class should be the best per se, instead ever since mid-2e-era they just incessantly low-grade argue...

From someone who has not purchased 5e24 this thread is VERY useful - not because of the OP but because as a neutral I can see how their...