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You can do more than one thing in the same game. One minute the party are trying to persuade a baying mob to put down their weapons, the...

In the DMG. Because Gygax was inspired by the literature, and the literature is full of magic swords (the vorpal sword is a sword...

And if they play like this they will never get more Force points. And if the GM designs the game so that they need to play like this...

Sure, and part of running the game is signaling this. Star Wars is not subtle, if the dramatic moments aren’t obvious you haven’t got...

No one forces you to only use magic items that are in the DMG.

They aren't. Plenty of archers in the Underdark but very few trees. Clearly they use other materials.

I'm curious- did most of the goblins also not have their armor on or weapons at the ready? I've been bothered by tracking ammunition...

Yeah, this is the sort of thing I find annoying - people who want things for “authenticity” when they have no real idea what actually...

No, the opportunity to do something different happened in 2015. And 2016, and 2017. The player base kept rejecting psionics "being...

I would say that thespian play leans in to narrating the outcome of a skill check, especially the more incongruous rolls. The roll...

Strange. I keep seeing Critical Role called out as thespian play, but that definition excludes them from being thespian play. They...

Agreed! One technique that I use as GM - and it's hardly revolutionary - is to ask each player how their PC came to be in <the...

Not my experience. Maybe your players are not very good at being heroic, or you don’t set up the opportunities? It’s certainly not a...

Entirely a matter of style. Plane hopping is pretty common in my games, but is mostly short visits (like BG3). However, on many planes...

I do like these two maps. I'm sorry people who like a just-the-facts approach, but those other two are boring.