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What is "wrong" is that it is the same amount regardless of what the characters do. This trivialises the fictional position and choices...

This isn't an objective discussion. Map and key is not objectively inferior to not map and key.

It is not "hidden" it is just unknown to all participants, as we do not yet know what sort of actions the characters might take and how...

Method matters. 10x10=100. So does 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1...........+1+1+1=100. It's not about the result in many cases. It's about how you...

It isn't about being hidden or not. It's about whether the player's action declarations make a significant difference in resolving the...

The way I describe it isn't insulting to both the players and the GM? It also doesn't gloss over the degree of control the players have...

It is very different. See my prison escape example. In skill challenge the players have less input, as no matter what they do, they have...

I did understand it more broadly. My understanding was that much of the active, "on camera" parts of the setting is mapped out in at...

It is from the DMG1. The challenges have set of primary skills, and there is no indication that the GM should prevent the players from...

The Geordi thing with the regenerating eyes really bothered me, especially since the guy died anyway, making the comment just an...

So Korby... he came aboard as Chapel's date for the Federation centennial event thing... but then he never left? Has he now just joined...

A Goodman Games program guide from GenCon a few years back had a DCC writeup for the Glaive from Krull, one of the single most awesomely...

Especially when they have four distinct Elven cultures to choose from in Level Up. High, Wood, Shadow and Eladrin.

That's how they were portrayed in Dragonlance.

If you're running a level-appropriate canned module, do you run the combats as written or do you tweak them on the fly? Why, though...