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Here are contemporary trends that I see in terms of modern approaches to TTRPG mechanics: Fiction First Gaming: this was something of a...

I think as a game, it might better for my taste, but it might not be better for a lot of other people for which spells as daily resource...

I can make the encounter harder to challenge the party. But how do I deal with the Wizard throwing high level spells at the enemy, and...

If you want players to switch weapons more, it might be a good idea to give weapons benefits against particular type of enemies. Some...

Yeah, sometimes I think all the uneven and possibly contradictory elements in D&D are the feature why it's succesful. Yes, we can have...

Yes, if a 4E party has only one or two combats per day, it can handle much more powerful enemies or larger groups of enemies. The...

The biggest problem to me is that they are a tool of limited usefulness. I don't send my players to monster-infested dungeons and...

There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...

It introduced in the sense that it gave a name to something and the rules were built with the concept in mind. It predades 4E as an...

I think there can be some debate if we can actually mentally fully cope with the idea of not needing to do anything at all to live...

I challenge you -- go and look at the many slop AI-generated 'companion' books on Amazon which instantly come out along with every...

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell The Kurzgesagt team (who does really amazing and well researched science videos). Just did a pretty solid...

I'd say it depends on how "winny" the win-buttons are. I enjoy having some sort of game resources that gives me an advantage, but...

Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or...

I have suspicion that what's really being seen here is the tendency of Forge-derived games and their descendants to drill down on a...