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I agree that they aren’t games, but I don’t think they’re activities either. RPGs are game creation engines. You can use those engines...

I checked, and I've played ~33 sessions of D&D in 2025 so far. Since my games usually run around 4 hours, I'm easily in the 60+ hours...

Huh… weird. I don’t understand how it’s even possible for him to have been wrong about that, since IIRC the original claim was that they...

Quite frankly, nothing Crawford says can be trusted. He just calls it like it is written, whether it's intended that way or not. That...

Random encounters work as good time pressure tools in OSR games since any encounter is likely to cause one or more PC deaths. In more...

I’d argue that for those folks it isn’t a better game experience. These things are subjective.

I tend to agree. However, the modern playerbase likes the "press shiny button" modern game design while disliking the "why can't I press...

Lots of food for thought here. But one question that I have: How does a DM be more strict about the rate of Long Rests without seeming...

I mean, I think I’ve been on the same page as you regarding the analysis of how the combat is designed. I just think it’s a good design...

In principle, yes. In practice, I've never seen combat in any 5e-ish game I've been a part of run anything as quickly as you--and that's...

That's literally all of D&D. The game is designed around attrition-based adventuring.

No snark: It sounds as though you reinvented/repurposed the Mythic Monsters mechanic. I've found that works well for boss-type...

Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...

Oh, and the attempt at alphabetization was a dismal failure.

I was very excited for the changes initially - I think, for example, that putting save bonuses with the ability scores instead of in a...