Recent content by Malmuria

I think what you risk is taking dnd as a medieval fantasy simulator and turning it too explicitly into a settler-colonial simulator. As you mention it's implicit in the game already--adventurers killing things and taking stuff--but the fantasy medieval gloss makes it more palatable (perhaps)...

The complete phrase is "don't prep plots, prep situations." It does feel that your view is that what JA would call a "situation," however, still falls under the purview of "plot" These are good case studies, because they are avowedly old school location-based adventures. That is, they are not...

Well, JA does define plots as "sequence of events in a story." I think the "general thrust of play" would be considered as a "situation." So maybe it's just semantics at that point

In this case would do you make of something like the 7-3-1 technique of prep? Does the fact of prepping anything, even as a sketch and a way to think through your setting, constitute "wanting" something to happen?

It does strike me that the issue is not so much with the three clue rule as much as it is how you design the nodes. If the nodes all funnel to the same 'ending' then I would agree that they are in contradiction with don't prep plots. However, if the nodes just lead to other nodes in an...

Somewhat off topic: The way clues are handled in The Between/BB is very clever. At the same time, these games have a lot of structure to them, to the point that it seems that the way that players find clues don't really matter. I've run both, and found this to be...not a problem per se, but...

But they could still fail to find it? The GM doesn't have to railroad players if they can't make use of any of the clues. I see this advice as more about how to make dynamic situations than how to lead players down a pre-determined plot

To add on to this, it also depends on where you live. 5e products will no longer be translated into Portuguese because of lack of sales. The main reason sales are lacking is that the cost of a book that is 70 USD is much more expensive given taxes, monetary conversion, and incomes in Brazil

Rules adjudication and look up. Figuring out what the rules allow for, looking and parsing rules explanations, etc.

yep and some are very specific Others not so much...

I was recently a player in a short Burning Wheel campaign. It was with an experienced BW gm and I pushed really hard to make this game happen because I was really curious about the system. Overall, we found it needlessly complex, even just the base system (and I think the GM greatly simplified...

one room per month until the end of the century! Or ecological collapse, whichever comes first

And here's a perfect example of that. This is $500. Half of Americans don't have that much saved. https://www.enworld.org/threads/theres-a-platinum-vecna-eve-of-ruin-from-beadle-grimm-this-summer.702811/

You can get the complete works of Shakespeare in a nicely bound volume for $30. You can get big art museum style books with full color, high resolution images (some of which have hefty reproduction fees) for $50. So, compared to other books, yes, $80 is expensive. It's also expensive for the...

People can charge whatever they want; my question is whether $80 should be considered expensive for a book.