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Thanks to this thread I have been reducing and reformatting my notes for my next session and have them down to 10 much better organized...

Okay, this was the session note for the fourth of a series of related adventures with a group I called the Hexagram, which were trying...

Here is a copy of what typical prep looks like for me when I run a con game. Usually, I run multiple connected sessions in an episodic...

As I stated in the OP, one of the intents in creating this thread was to generalize the specific question of Daggerheart's steps. I...

I feel this is where intentions comes into play (and part of the reason why OP question would be best answered by designers). For a...

Unless I missed it, there's a major factor that hasn't been discussed yet: how many actions it takes to resolve the total encounter. If...

Does checking for Hope and Fear really count as being a separate step from rolling to hit? You're supposed to have two obviously...

This feels like a good question designers would be suited to answer. If we take combat as one part of a game... I don't like combat...

Keep in mind that responsibilities are not necessarily shared equally between the GM and player. The player in D&D only rolls to hit...

Looking at the number of steps in isolation is not very meaningful, especially as how to break them down into steps is (perhaps...

I've kept a lot of the subtle humour in Shadows of Empire, which is WH for Shadowdark. I think the humour is an absolutely essential...

While Warhammer Fantasy wasn't strictly the level of satire that 40k was, both were originally approached with tongue firmly in cheek...

This thread is for the general discussion of Pets & Sidekicks. Click on Overview for more information. Pets and companions for your D&D...

I've run Vaesen; YZE works well for investigative/horror genre, just the usual caveats for play to avoid locking clues behind high...

The number of skills does vary, tho' not too much; it's 3 or 4 per attribute, 4 attributes, in most of them. The more important...