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Putting time limits on adventures gets old real quick. Particularly when you typically have zero to three combat encounters per session...

Star Wars offers a good template for how to deal space travel. Once you are in hyperspace it’s very unlikely that you will encounter...

Except that they don’t, because there is nothing to prevent the party resting without trashing any narrative sense.

The DM (who is me) does not ensure the PCs always win, the rules do that. 5e combat is easy mode. Optimising characters is a waste of...

There is a section on Dark Fantasy in VGR. But I don't see why you would need alternate rules to do either.

I haven’t played the latest version, but it doesn’t look significantly different to the previous version, which I enjoyed playing.

AFAICT, the whole reason for "backwards compatibility" was to keep the Adventures in print without needing to revise them. It's part of...

I don't entirely disagree with you, but there's no need to rewrite lore - as far as I can tell, Orcs have done everything that they have...

This is an example of the “presentation” issues that 4e had. The way the rules explained things certainly gave that impression. I’m...

They can replace the out-of-combat stuff a wizard does if your party is stuck with a “I only blow sh*t up” sorcerer. They also share...

You could throw twenty tarasques at the party and it still wouldn’t be a particularly difficult encounter. But that’s because combat...

I guess that just shows that different people like different stuff. I enjoyed conversing with the villagers, who were quite well...

Have done that, but found it’s not necessary. Four characters can just as easily handle combat encounters as five. It’s still easy. It...

I played it when it first came out, didn’t finish it though, after leaving the village it very quickly got boring. It tries to be far...

Here is an interesting observation: a player doesn’t make it to the session, so their character sits it out. The combat encounters are...