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We might not get very far, then, as I see the GM as being somewhere between a "player plus" and an entirely separate role; with the...

Good example! The answer to that for me is to do as much rolling for random encounters ahead of time as possible. To make this work, you...

There's a balance in there somewhere: the GM isn't necessarily just there to serve the players but at the same time the players aren't...

You seem to think the players are more important than the GM, so their desires should be prioritized. A lot of people seem to feel this...

There might be power set similiarities, but also stark differences - because that book doesn't describe the guy getting into armed...

from my point of view, as a frequent user of maps and tokens in D&D since 1981... Movement is the single most mechanical of those. It's...

Just to clarify, as I think I've lost track a bit here: when you say "harder on your players" are you speaking of harder to actually...

Can that mechanical progression be slowed down without crashing the system?

Possibly Stonetop, though long-term play would potentially not be done with the same characters but with new villagers across successive...

Were I a player running a halfway-wise character I'd say bail out right now and head for that forest camp. Once there, I might even...

Since 3/5 of the party is running on fumes (at best), I'd prioritize getting out for a long rest. If the secret way is fairly secret...

I am concerned about previous editions - more so than I am about 5e - and the same (or very similar) arguments apply to 1e and 2e which...

The mechanical biases caused by stat differences only matter* at the very lowest levels, before all the other stuff - magic items...

Dropping the lowest of 4d6 provides (in theory) mechanical proficiency, not mechanical equality.

(totally tangential) Where do we get the "ranger has a beast companion" trope from that seems to have become core to the class? Aragorn...