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Hi, let me help. I'm not going to pretend I remember all the details of a game that happened over a decade ago. But let me give what I...

4e DnD. I started with 3.5, played in only a few campaigns and tried DMing once (it didn't go well). With the new edition claiming to be...

I think once the "more intuitive" saving throw categories of 3E are adopted, it's hard to avoid the push towards further...

@Remathilis, in their post about the climactic fight against the arch-lich, was talking about the design and the play of the game. I...

Moldvay Basic. My first RPG was Classic Traveller (1977 version).

Chivalry & Sorcery.

So one thing is: how is adversity introduced, as a component of the fiction? I think play tends to be more interesting if adversity is...

It depends how the RPG structures play. Rolling dice against a "random attrition table" is apt to be relatively uninteresting. But...

OK? I mean, you asked and I answered.

I don't know the reasoning. That's impossible to know without being in the room. We do know they wanted it We have the quotes. We do...

It's really not the same. That's an inference YOU are making; it's certainly not what Minigiant said.

I definitely thought of Torchbearer! Having gear break or be lost is a fairly typical failure consequence in TB2e. In our most recent...

Oh, the other system I thought of was Torchbearer. I remember reading a play report and thinking it successfully makes simple travel...

Which is why I looked to non-western exploration models, which tended to be more diplomatic and scholarly. Al-Masudi was a Scholar who...

I am more interested in the mechanics of how to do such a thing well at the table so that it is engaging and dramatic and tense.