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I don't get the objections around the goblin chief's birthday party. "The tribe's chief demands a tribute or else" is as old as pulp...

This solution is but one of thousands of solutions that have been bandied about on the interwebs for over a decade. But the problem is...

Rolls for random encounters at regular intervals. That makes it the player’s choice if they want to risk taking a long rest in a...

I mean, I am not sure what people are talking about when they say the official Adventures don't follow the DMG model, though...they are...

Game designers clearly present how to run the game in the guide on how to run the game->Players ignore the guide on how to run the...

Alright, well that’s definitely the problem. I don’t suspect you’re much slower than most, no. You’ve just got an above average sized...

And to control the pace, you don't need to run 20 rounds of combat every long rest, you just need the party to believe that there could...

Ironically, it is also the least traditional (along with the full moon thing). Those were both invented for the 1941 Wolfman film -- or...

I mean, that’s subjective, but “I don’t like the way this system is designed to work” is a very different complaint than “this system...

I absolutely hate what they did to lycanthropes. A vampire taking normal damage from nonmagical weapons I can live with, even though I...

I mean, if you’re doing those things, you don’t really need combat to be balanced. Combat is balanced around adventures where combat is...

Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...