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I'm thinking of when my son started playing with me when he was 9. We played with a NPC that could add some combat and such. I'm...

I’ve read too many published adventures over the years, so my notes are pretty much full-blown write-ups. This was my write-up for my...

To be fair, the 2024 DM guidelines at least talk about this. But people are so entrenched in how they run D&D they barely read the DMG.

One element that I really hope more games work to deal with, and especially the next time we see an edition of D&D, is making sure...

Unless I missed it, there's a major factor that hasn't been discussed yet: how many actions it takes to resolve the total encounter. If...

The fundamental question is, is whatever mechanic we're devising actually fun. And you can address that in a lot of ways, but I like...

Well, in your favor = i was not talking about Mage the Ascension... You see, that is "old world of darkness", not "new world of...

I think this is missing the forest for the trees. The actual issue is the user experience; if its good and well tuned it really doesn't...

To be clear he's talking about NWoD, not oWoD, it's just very confusing because he says "first print edition of World of Darkness", by...

The thing with knowledge checks is that it's possible to forget something in the moment and recall it later when you're not really...

At some point, some actions, images, words, etc. become so strongly associated with “evil” that using them in other contexts is going to...

Licenses need to be yanked for this stuff.

Interesting example. This may be an example of how each of us processes things differently. My group convinced me to run a Mage: The...

No matter how many steps are in the game, everything slows down when players aren't familiar with how the rules for their own character...