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They are absolutely not assuming that, since that’s not how Initiative works in 5e. Fleeing by yourself, abandoning the rest of the...

Sorry but I believe that D&D should purge the weak from its ranks. If you lack sufficient tactics/system matery/fictional positioning...

no there is not power creep in buffing weak options, for simple reason, almost no one played weak options when stronger appeared or they...

Heh. Even with the power of a VTT behind me, my newbie player STILL struggles with his battlemaster fighter. And this is a player who...

Depends on the RPG, to my perspective. Various D&D versions? Sure, you can move into either a challenge-based game or narrative...

The roots of the game grew out of the author's home D&D campaign circa late 'aughts played in 4e, and taking inspiration from Storming...

Figured at this point we should have a central thread to discuss the various Stonetop games folks around this board have run, talk about...

D&D 4E really did set the standard for this. It's the only system where I have been able to build combats based entirely on the...

I mean, it's really difficult in a turn-based strategy game. All of those games are meant to prioritize making good opening moves...

I gave another answer that I don';t think would be all that useful about RPGs solving it because the goal of their combat scenes not...

I'm going to give a correct answer, but it's probably not a useful one to you. There are plenty of RPGs that do this -- because they...

Wouldn't touch Imperial with a ten foot pole.

As a side note, your commitment to metric measurements is admirable!

In Burning Wheel, connections between PCs are established mostly as Beliefs. For instance, when my friend and I built PCs for a game, my...

So, a lot of them are game dependent. Stonetop, for instance, has a series of questions that are asked about the town and the people in...