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Making a mental note that @Whizbang Dustyboots is anti-corporate and therefore against the American Way...

A good way to get around the Pirates are bad people issue, is make them Robin Hood of the Seas.

Here are contemporary trends that I see in terms of modern approaches to TTRPG mechanics: Fiction First Gaming: this was something of a...

Case in point, the 3e cure light wound wand. Playing 3e without access to that wand (or some equivalent of it) is a NIGHT AND DAY...

Now...that was a good example of whataboutism.

It was and it wasnt. The issue with 3E is they built "life hacks" into the system to allow you to opt out of it working that way.

Go with a sloop, which can be handled by a minimal crew and, in real life, was a very popular pirate ship because it was both fast and...

I ran a years-long fork of my Ptolus campaign set in Green Ronin's Freeport, which also included Goodman Games' Tower of the Black...

Then I don't truly believe they actually want the rules changed that badly. They merely want WotC to acknowledge the idea of the thing...

What I'm struck by is how much people want to re-litigate an 11 year old game based on design assumptions from even before 2014 and...

This solution is but one of thousands of solutions that have been bandied about on the interwebs for over a decade. But the problem is...

I think Golarion is being sold as a setting that pulled folks in (and not to short cut it its a cool setting) but I think the adventure...

I think you've got some definite good points here. It's hard to keep the Boss Monster from going down like a chump if the PCs have the...

It’s interesting how this thread continues unfolding, because the variety of responses almost is the point. Every take here represents a...

I think the West End Games d6 Star Wars TTRPG mentioned this, and I never got into extended universe (which to me is everything but the...