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If I were in charge at WotC, I'd foreground "hey, don't be a jerk and if someone's a jerk, don't play with them" and explicitly get out...

No, it wouldn't really. I'm not trying to remake 4e whole cloth. Just come up with some ideas that take the positives of that system...

Listen, I get this is a heated debate about how useful you, personally, find CR as compared to a wholly new DM or whatever, but that's...

Milestone your Levels rather than doing strict XP, and include narrative breaks where your characters have ot wait and do things. Go for...

So I've talked a few times about what I'd want in a 6e game. Often enough that at 3am this morning I was plagued with thoughts of game...

So as Mearls finally admitted and expressed mathematically, though most of us have known it for a long time: D&D's combat was balanced...

I fugred out my own explanation why bosses die too easily. Because there is no scenario in which focusing fire on the boss is not the...

This is my Black Powder armoury page from Shadows of Empire.

By the way, anybody notice how monster recharge abilities are almost always Recharge 5 or 6? That’s a 1 in 3 chance, in a combat that’s...

Something like Magic of Incarnum or the Pact/Binder of Vestiges would be cool.

Something intelligence based is a gaping hole.

The Marshal/Warlord feels like the biggest missing role from the line-up (my group ended up using the A5e version which served quite...

Until this thread I didn't realize how many games were actually out there! Now if only days had more than 24 hours and weeks more than 7...

I have Pirate Borg and also backed their Dark Caribbean Kickstarter. I just can't ever find a game to join. How much do I have to pay...

The Mystic got canned because Mearls was trying to make a single class capable of doing everything but with psionics. Yeah, the system...