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Re: aesthetics Torches, just like ancient tombs full of traps, aren't aesthetics of fantasy. Corum Jhaslen Irsei didn't muck around...

@Pamphylian I think you’ve put your finger on a real throughline in D&D design, not just a quirk of 5e. From the very beginning, the...

I quite like random encounters, and I find great joy in making tables to generate them. As an unsolicited advice: you should use...

TTRPG books are massively undervalued. The profit margins are non-existent, and creators get paid less than minimum wage for a book...

Sure, but there is another team in basketball. There's no Team Monsters in D&D, so you can only feasibly compare players to each other...

Ah, right, I think I got distracted when writing, or maybe short-circuited. He wins against me fairly regularly, but loses hard to...

Many things involve skills that can't be measured. That in itself is not a problem or slight against them. But in a context of a game...

My "favourite" iteration of the vision-impairment rules is fog cloud, where everyone is basically attacking each other blind, and the...

The main reason is that in the context of 5e, a warlock without power turns into a pumpkin. There's a drastic power curve, and falling...

Quote from David Sirlin's "Playing to Win" You know what this description reminds me of? Don't look up the adventure, that's cheap...

I just realized the most important question was never brought up. How can there be skilled play if no one is keeping track of who's the...

Which is totally superfluous to whether or not social or combat encounters be decided by GM fiat. No matter the stakes, GM fiat deciding...

I prefer the pcs to be very special indeed; Exalted is pretty much my personal sweet spot. I can enjoy a wide range of course, but I...

Eh. Again, it depends what skill. Yes, the skills connected to long-term resource management are hard to make central to play with...

Using the vocabulary of GNS (from The Forge), he identifies two forms of simulationism - purist-for-system (eg C&S) and high concept...