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The Shieldbearers seem to be set up to be the "here's how to give your PCs missions" organization, but there's very little meat on their...

My route for getting people into the swing of things when they are playing fighters or rogues is to just tell them to treat the game...

Perhaps the best OSR adventures do, but there are a lot of OSR adventures that are far, far worse than anything Wizards has released.

The problem with 5E adventures is that OSR adventures completely eclipse them in terms of quality and it isn't even really close. OSR...

Zones would allow for physical props and make theater of the mind better. Big proponent for zone-based play.

You know what I wish they dealt with? The fact that this game is trying to allow both theater of the mind and grid based play with the...

I think 5E is a game designed for modular sub-systems, but has not been supported as such. There should be cinematic and streamlined...

I think 5.5e is looking pretty awesome so far, but one thing I really wish they had addressed in the playtests was the overwhelming...

I would also like to have seen a unified subclass progression. The other thing I would like to have seen would be the integration of Hit...

I feel 5e was an amazing and solid foundation to build upon when it first came out. But they never built on it. And that foundation is...

Yeah to me, 5.5e is just looking like a big sidegrade. I see absolutely no reason to switch over from 5e. Pretty much every single thing...

I would have liked to see a real metacurrency that has a core function in the game, like Momentum/Threat or Bennies. Inspiration is an...

This is the kind of non-typical treasure I like. I want anything other than literal rando treasure gems and stuff. I want art with...

Magical creature eggs might be an interesting 'treasure'. If their parents were part of the dungeon's defense system and were taken out...

Never mind that part of the fun can be the very act of overcoming that frustration.