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That's always been thw trouble for anu company producing TRPG material: we don't need much to play for years, and we can share books and...

I'm getting there! That's really interesting to read about how folks react to the various starter sets. Maybe a better way to think of...

Actually, it doesn't quite line up that way. I assume that our distributors (we sourced them from multiple places as the supplies...

First, huge thanks to @FitzTheRuke for posting this. Very interesting! Three numbers that stand out to me: 194STARTER 2014 LAST MINES...

I can definitely see that modular means different things to different folks. For me modular meant that each major chunk of the game was...

Thank you for the response and really glad to hear this part: I can't (though I guess I will have to) wait to see the final product.

Wizards of the Coast recently filed an application to register Dark Sun in the US, a sign that D&D could be bringing back the campaign...

In terms of modular design, the idea was to keep each segment of the game as independent as possible. If we could carry over only the...

I'm not sure if those specific rules would've been featured, but my plan (though obviously things changed when I took a job working on...

You could wire up a specific debuff that the creature can use to knock out a status put on it. If you specify that if it has that debuff...

I didn't read the whole thread, but I think Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire had a really good solution for control effects and bosses...

I like this. What, I wonder, are the kinds of high level campaigns that would require some rules forking? Domain management (and, one...

I wonder if any success has ever been had with a campaign that wasn't strictly linear - where the players had x different character...

Lack of time, really. Were I to hack 5e for better high level play, I think I'd try to build content for both DMs and players. So maybe...

That's correct. I think there are a lot of reasons for that, but the biggest in my mind is that the work needed to play and run the game...