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I wanted darkness to play a fairly important role in my campaign. I told my players up front that most species in my world wouldn't be...

I don't have much of a problem working with it. If the party is traveling in the dark, they make sure one or two of them has a light...

Wandering/Random Encounters are procedurally determined but applied narratively, though the odds and the frequency are determined by the...

I would have expected this to be the default, that darkvision simply doesn't work unless it's dark and that a light source will spoil it.

To a point, sure. Same for things like spell points or slots, and magic in general for all that: it's real in the setting, and the...

My general expectation is that everyone is speaking with personal bias, unless they're calling out with explicit language that they are...

Fair enough, but unless your rulebooks are the size of the collected Encyclopedia Brittanica there's inevitably going to be situations...

So let me unpack my apparently somewhat cryptic statement. I don't assume that any significant portion of the RPG playing public...

If they're in any sort of hurry I tell them (and-or draw out on the board) only what they can see within the range of their lights; "no...

Bail out and head for that forest camp. The narrative desire to push on and defeat the villain while running on fumes is a great trope...

I'm not talking about mastery of the setting or prep. I'm talking about mastery of the table, something akin to a facilitatorial or...

I design (and sell) my own RPG stuff specifically to scratch this itch. Video games? Jesus no.

This isn't quite a contradiction. Publishing is something you do instead of playing at the tabletop - and game design isn't world...

For those of you who have the tech and-or know-how to do so, perhaps. I sure don't, on either count.

A rather vital support function without which the game likely collapses sooner rather than later, even if prep only consists of making...