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And that's four years before the Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games. Though I'm pretty sure the crew at Catalyst were joking. After all, didn't they go straight from Fore to Ate?

Not better. Different. It is a different experience in ways that cannot simply be measured by numbers, hence qualitatively rather than quantitatively different. And there are times when I would most definitely rather have that experience than the responsibility of prepping an adventure and...

And it's not just XP you lose out on for missing a week of play. It's the experience of playing as a PC, which I'm sure I don't need to remind anyone is qualitatively different from playing as a GM. EDIT: Full XP and gold would erase the advancement deficit, but I'm less interested in keeping...

As a coordinator I've been very happy to see players who come to my Public Play games start organizing home games together. I haven't had time to join many of these myself (one monthly game that fell apart about eight months after I joined), but I seem to have helped facilitate a lot of contacts...

Presumably since the games are already scheduled I'm not going to be running any of them. Which is not inherently a big deal, except that a convention you rarely know whether your GM is going to be any good. Still, assuming everything is equal except the system, I'ma go with the White Box.

I found that, under LFR at least, Organized Play became a haven for people who ran home campaigns and wanted a break from behind the screen. They weren't the only players coming to LFR nights at the game store, but they represented a large enough percentage that, when you added them to the...

I didn't vote because I haven't so much migrated to 5e as annexed it to my D&D empire. I play 5e about once a month, but I'm playing and running 4e more frequently, and I have a White Box OD&D dungeon waiting in the wings for a willing group and a time slot. (The most-likely for both is a group...

Well, I certainly have plenty of that.

Or maybe he's secretly a big wheel in local organized crime, but able to keep the connections between himself and his more brutal subordinates hidden. He does flashy good works, but they're paid for with protection money and the proceeds from drug dealing and human trafficking.

If the ruler keeps his negative externalities external enough, it'll be very easy for him to maintain his local popularity. Perhaps there's a marginalized group or three that his wealth is based in exploiting, and he spreads enough of that money around to more favored groups that they're cool...

Ours is 6 PCs, by DM's choice. The game runs monthly in a public play program (though not an official one), and if he was willing we could easily get more players.

A couple years ago I designed a short 4e delve designed around raiding a tomb that I built in Lego using 4x4 tiles as the equivalent of a game inch. The tomb had a ruined surface level with a hidden entrance (finding the entrance under the debris was the climax of the skill challenge "Find the...

So far, I've been squinting. And turning the figure slightly so the light rakes the lettering better. It works about as well as you'd expect. I think I'll try the silver pen thingy.

I didn't bring anything over from WotC--I didn't post that much there, and my 5e playtest blog post is safely recorded elsewhere--but here I am. For what it's worth.

Muchas gracias!