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There are one of two possibilities for paying far more than market value: 1) They really want the house for historical reasons. 2) They...

This May Target is going to carry a companion workbook about how to create a character within the 2024 rules. Early marketing clearly...

I live elsewhere in Wisconsin, 1-2 hours away, and I can't believe someone would pay that much for that dumpy little house, even...

And it's official... the house-formerly-known-as-the-Dungeon-Hobby-Shop-Museum has sold for $375K... which is kinda absurd, but...

Well, one way I can think of is if the DM has miscaclulated the threat level of a monster, and only realizes as the encounter unfolds...

If I draw the implications correctly, then I think you are right in saying we should be critical of treating everything not ruled out by...

"You don't need to know the castellan's name, but you 100% need a map of the general store" is ... idiosyncratic. It'll be interesting...

Castle Amber and The Lost City are much-loved examples with great ideas that couldn't really fit into the 28-32 page format. Still...

Castle Amber was excellent, but not easy to run.

"Make your own fun" adventures can be great, if the table enjoys that kind of thing. In the early 1980s, for us, they were basically an...

And, frankly, again, there's a million ways to bias an encounter. Just off the top of my head: Do monsters "focus fire" - each...

There are too many problematic implications around what may properly count as a rule or a game, for me to engage with the "by its very...

But an encounter can be unfair to the players, due to bad design. Me changing it on the fly could make it fair to the players.

This example does not match what I described. If a poker tournament's rules expressly state that telepathy is allowed, it can hardly be...

Yes, in fact if the books declare you can do it, it does mean that it isn't cheating. The players have access to the books. They have...