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If we're living in the recoil from the 4e period, and D&D's the most successful it has ever been, then I think it may indicate that this...

Im not really following the setting thread. I might find the idea of specific playloop vs a general one persuasive, but I find settings...

None of my breaks (ranging from 6 months to a few years) have been intentional, but they all ended up being a needed re-charging.

I feel the designers are/were right. DM designs adventures based on their party/group. The pacing that works in your game, may not...

Thing is, that nut that cant be cracked doesn't really matter to the masses. Its a problem for the hardcore .0001% of players who will...

"A true pirate is going to be evil". This one I am going to have to disagree with. Look at the history of piracy in the Caribbean and...

I liked Tron Ares. It was actually pretty good. This was one of the trailers prior to the movie. This one looks a little like...

Gygaxian D&D didn't have a strict balance paradigm per se, but it is a fact that the D&D Next playtest was built around making a trek...

Yeah, sometimes I think all the uneven and possibly contradictory elements in D&D are the feature why it's succesful. Yes, we can have...

My answer was to split the difference. Basically everything became a 5 room dungeon. In a city? Encounter a thieves guild HQ...

Really its because D&D has to accommodate so many playstyles it cant pick a lane. When it does, things tend to get incendiary one way or...

A buddy of mine is/was a musician the title is kinda iffy. For a time, he tried to make a career out of it but he found it made doing...

TRON at least has the soundtrack.

Most people who play 5e don't follow any news of any 3pp coming out - they're extremely unplugged to the RPG scene outside of (maybe)...

I've been there. I had a group I was running an AP for in PF1 era. I was putting a ton of work into bringing the AP to life. The players...