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Good, clear, rules can help somone be a better "good" GM. No amount rules help can turn a truly bad GM (IMO things such as a proud...

In all my years of gaming I've never understood boasting about being a "killer DM." It's extraordinarily easy to kill PCs or to take...

I'm not usually a big fan of threatening equipment. But in this case there was a huge deposit of Adamantite - which would be a massive...

When I threw a pack of Rust Monsters at my group, they players reacted with much more (genuine) fear and trepidation than they had...

I get how the spell works. But, for me, it's unfortunate that they turned the spell into essentially conjuring a big sticky damaging wall.

"isn't Restrained" is all that you need, and seems pretty clear. "Anymore" seems superfluous. IMO. Well it has built in disadvantage...

I have admittedly not read every single post in this thread very closely, but I did go back and reread the OP and have to wonder when a...

That's kind of the point. Other than the really big blip at the beginning, the writers weren't really willing to hold her to account -...

Especially when Doug Jones was sooo good, and they had the whole fearful to fearless dynamic for him as a leadership development arc...

Yeah, that was really odd. They make it a point to show that she's terrible at 2 critical "captain" skills 1) taking input from her...

So, I have no problem with Disco season 1. But... while I give Trek loads of leeway on its science.... one kid growing up around a lot...

I haven't watched Picard season 2 yet, only S1 and S3. But, lemme tell ya, Mecha-Space-C'thulhu from Beyond the 5th Dimension there in...

A bad DM would be bad regardless of if the rules supported them taking away a PC's powers or not.