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In the moment what you decided I think was fine! Deliberating now, I feel like if it were me, I would ask the player to make an...

Last night we played a big battle with a dragon possessed by a ghost dragon as a big boss fight in the adventure Divine Contention for...

People do survive in stories and in real life. 20 foot falls are more often crippling than deadly.

All models are wrong, but some are useful. Some rules are much less realistic than others. And some rulesets “crowd out” human judgment...

The best lesson in this that I ever had, back in the late eighties, 2 friends were playing some flavour of modern micros, (1/300, if I...

Did one myself onto concrete. Walked away from it very slowly. If I had landed on anything besides my feet (did a PLF without...

Quite right, yes. If you accept a fiction-first principle, it doesn't matter what the rules exactly are if you slide a dagger through...

I doubt I'm going to start playing WFRP, but your post did get me curious enough that I might at least read it.

They take a Hellevator.

Coming from a different design space: Is your game an anime fantasy? Having someone destroy an opponent's plate armor with punches...

One recent example, released in January, 2025. While pinball enthusiasts have expressed legitimate criticisms, it seems like it's been...

One thing thats funny is trying to un-D&D a group. Like this is Star Wars you don't need to strip ever Trooper you kill. Storm Trooper...

For running a new system, compliment for accomplishing as much as you did!

Wanted to run a Firefly style game set in the Empire Era. Well we had our first session. A group of Mercs just trying to stay flying...

Of the (as of this writing) two world wars, the second one gets move coverage. The good guys and bad guys are defined more clearly, the...