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The terms I used, like “Mother May I” or “skip to the good parts”, are common stereotypes that have been unfairly applied to different...

The City State of the Invincible Overlord is not a “safer” area. It has its own dangers, political, criminal, and otherwise, every bit...

In the distant past when I designed worlds, there were indeed safer areas and more dangerous areas. And not at all because of level...

Yeah, I think Gary was definitely writing from a context with more adversarial/opportunistic players. In retrospect, though, "have an...

Makes sense. As Max and Sacrosanct illustrated, a fair number of DMs ruled more harshly, which strikes me as pretty brutal given how...

Maybe there's an example in a popular module? Or maybe it's just folks extrapolating from Gary's guidance in the 1E DMG to never cut a...

I wonder if a Dragon article said something along those lines, because all the DMs I played with did the same thing.

I think this was pretty common, yeah, to multiclass if you were going to have a thief character, so you brought other abilities to the...

That’s the Hal Jordan-era GL Corp weakness. Alan’s weakness is wood. This tracks: if that the trolley was mostly made of wood, he...

The seldom seen 3rd solution to the trolley problem Option 3: A giant costumed man pushes the trolley while it runs over people I...

A buddy of mine and another store owner are putting on a full game convention in Burbank, California over Father's Day weekend. I'm...

Verbage change. But Psion is a caster, same as Bard or Sorcerer.

Yeah, they changed the verbiage; everyone has Prepared spells now, the difference is how and how often the class can change which spells...