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The fun I remember were the antics of my players and their characters. The fun thing I did as DM, I feel, was provide the platform...

Yeah, I think I legitimately lost braincells reading it. There are some common design pitfalls, it's not uncommon to see mechanics that...

Yea, I just disagree with all that. Now, when I DM, I want to run the game the rules said and trust that they’ll give us an interesting...

Yes, we had fun overall, it is the reason why we are still playing, but I can recognise that mistakes were indeed made by me, where I...

What, you’ve never enjoyed a bad movie? I enjoyed the group and the games, but I was a teenager. I no longer have interest in games...

That is true, but there are number of us who look back on that period with more than a little disdain.

GM presents and players interact is pretty fundamental to RPGing (except at the avant garde cutting edge). But that doesn't mean that...

You made me think of these two blogs...

Like I said before, I don’t do modules. Never have. The few times I’ve tried I haven’t really lasted more than a session. So my...

That's what the so called "stat block" is for! That's part of the reason why I find it strange that "sandbox" haters claiming that one...

Well, the last two or so pages of posts seems to once again confirm what I alluded to early on... The only difference between a...

The main issues? 1) "Follow the story hook to the next encounter site" was dishwater-dull 25 years ago. It's just overdone. It's...

Assuming you're meaning the old White Dwarf scenario, it's a nice module, and I've converted it to Torchbearer 2e although haven't yet...

Pacing and tension are functions of plot. And the fact that an author might not have an outlined a plot before writing doesn't change...

Ok, but there’s also a pretty big difference between how those stories are authored. There’s pretty massive differences between D&D and...