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You can also do it backwards. Something like Trespasser's exploration loop that's all about picking where and when to spend resources...

Yea, that's a big NO for me, lol. I remember games where the group would spend hours pouring over their spell lists and features...

I mean, a super easy example is 3 branching paths that converge to a place you want to go. Say, a weather-beaten cliff mid storm, maybe...

I couldn't disagree more. My favorite memories are all things like prepping a druid grove for an attack, or trying to figure out how to...

That's clearly just a design problem though. Feels like a function of designing the problems and problem solving actions in isolation...

Feels like this is fundamentally about skill design, not adventure design. You want the skills to point to abilities players want to use...

I don't really know that we can honestly say it did. Certainly to some extent for combat, but the adventuring game outside of combat was...

I still imagine an alternate universe where the synthesis we got out of this was deciding the more flexible caster party had the better...

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The most impactful splatbook content was new spells, especially Cleric/Druid spells. More flexible/targeted solutions to problems and...

Preferences aside, whether or not managing finite resources "matters" is a pretty fundamental distinction between different kinds of...

Oh, right in the nostalgia. Flat-footed and touch ACs, that big list of skills...

yes, even Micah does not have 10 million NPCs going about their daily lives in detail when ‘no one is looking’ and the characters are in...

Yeah, its pretty much "Let's look at all the D&D tropes and say "Okay, all these things have to at least some degree an in-world...

Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...