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Those numbers tell me that 37.5% of Americans are misguided. 25.8% of Americans are heathens, but not beyond all hope. And 11.7% of...

Probably because they are trying to reclaim the word away from Psionics.

Correct. You have successfully described the way in which the game is challenging.

You don’t have to make every encounter challenging. But, the condition for failing an individual encounter is running out of HP. That...

So did we ever figure out why these subclasses are "mystic" rather than "arcane"?

All the time. In my experience players generally start to feel uneasy about their resources and start discussing leaving the dungeon or...

Just came to say I ran more of the Cobblehook Cove adventure from Dragon Delves. The party has now had 4 encounters before they do the...

With a rules update too! This one is excellent, to the degree that I will consider buying it again.

The number only went to 18 before 3E, and the Gauntlets brought it to 18 with a few boni. That's a feature of what I am talking about...

Oh, yeah, and it wasn't just other game companies horning in on his market. Gygax turned on the 'zines too. You'd think all these...

Jesus naughty word Christ. Whatever that guy was about makes me hesitant to even post about the game I am back at.

You can literally pick up any 5E bok with Adventures and find this, they use it all the time.

Yeah, personally I think a big part of the problem here is the 1-hour short rest. They really should have been 10 minutes IMO. Having...

In an adventuring day paradigm, the encounter isn’t the base point of balance. You don’t lose an encounter, you lose an adventuring day...

Dunno if it counts, but, Shattered Obelisk was certainly built around adventuring days. Each dungeon is about 6-8 encounters long...