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I know it gets a bad rep, but I do think that 4E did this pretty well. 4E encounter design was pretty good.

I'm different than many here in that I don't (usually) simply decide what is in the world (easy or hard encounter-wise) and let the...

I think part of the problem in some cases, and I think it applies to the SD example above, is that some GMs assume combat for encounters...

I think a lot of those authors are pretty influential on sort of Japanese writers who basically created the shonen genre too, though...

Balance is tricky. At some point, the GM assumes the players will play their characters a certain way. When the players(it only takes...

In 40-odd years I have found there is one way, and one way only, to do this reliably -- get a feel for the game and your group and learn...

Stephen Spielberg back in full-on Amblin Entertainment mode.

That's immaterial here. There's no return of a ringwraith in Lothlorien. It's Gollum snuffling around the trees having picked up the...

At this point, he's already contended with the balrog - he just doesn't yet know what it is. It wasn't orcs or trolls that burst through...

A Journey in the Dark We see the first significant bit of Boromir’s stubbornness to come when he says that he will not go to the Mines...

Many Meetings Having Gandalf explain that the Ring-Wraiths would have turned Frodo into a wraith to be enslaved and tormented shows...

I think he was remembering the song Gildor's company had been singing when he met them, which had driven away the Black Riders. Eta...

Wouldn't say it is "better," both performances are their own distinct pieces of art. But Serkis does really deliver each character with...

Maybe I’ll try them someday. I just can’t imagine anything better than the Ingliss version. When you hear him doing his Pippin voice in...

I'm now done with Book One of Fellowship of the Ring, and am a little more than halfway through! Quite the milestone! Chapter 9: At the...