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Bingo! Nailed it.

I think there's a difference in people's ideas about what a campaign is. The currently prevailing idea is that a campaign is a specific...

The trick is to make it abundantly clear to the players right up front that levelling up is just an occasional and infrequent side...

Here in BC, every Canucks game is on Sportsnet (basic cable), except if "Prime" (is that Amazon?) has the game on its Monday night...

Well done, all the way through. Anything less makes me wonder what other bacteria etc. are still living in it when I eat it.

Ground up and turned into hamburger. Never really cared for steak. But my taste buds are at least one standard deviation away from...

"Tree bad. Fire pretty." - more D&D characters than I can count, including several of my own.

These assume that you-as-DM can choose the battleground. Sometimes you can, sure, but wise players (or wise characters) are going to do...

Never mind that - given how easy it generally is to roll a hit and how hard it is (particularly for monsters) to save - the odds of...

If you hit and dealt 4 damage to something with 40+ HP, would it really feel any better? I think its more an issue that your players...

If the offense fails to advance the ball in a (american) football game, did nothing happen?

I might differ with you about present-day media and story length: It's really difficult these days to find anything that's not made with...

The obvious reason for this is that it takes X short pieces to tally up the same content as one long one, meaning that while you can...

I'm also unconvinced that being able to tell the players what the campaign is about (as a narrative) before play is a great good thing...

You can easily overdo the pre-planning, though, and make it all seem a bit too prepackaged. "I'm starting an old-school D&D game, runs...