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It’s true. But wow is it hard to live up to in practice sometimes. I’m trying to cultivate the discipline of knowing when it’s time to...

how is could that be the failure of player skill - a 0HP death mechanic is nothing that happens in the narrative, its a pure mechanical...

Honestly, if I told my players that "the BBEG in the next adventure has a weapon that kills you at 0 hit points)" I wonder if they'd...

She wasn’t considered “literary” at the time of writing. She is only literary now because she was so good that she is still entertaining...

Yeah, I hope no one thinks I'm disparaging airport/beach reads. I just breezed through the new Hiaasen earlier this summer and he'd...

I honestly think that's one of the reasons Jane Austen's works have endured. They're very snackable. I think literary qualities don't...

Yes, thank you for explaining the specific over general rule. However, it all needs to be measured. The bigger the exception is, the...

I had that problem today. They were fighting a noble who they had learned was a blue dragon sorcerer (intended to warn them about his...

I think you nailed it with your analysis - I don't mind 0HP or at least much smaller death buffer systems in OSR games - because they...

Something a lot of people seem to forget when discussing when a character dies is that D&D was designed without a critical hit system...

I love clocks and countdowns. And this version is one of the best yet. The campaign frames are great. My favorite is Drylands. I was...

I like the armour and Thresholds. I know this is an area of complaint, but to me, it feels like the armour thresholds are blocking a...

Which is the reason why it is stupid to just look at review scores. If you want to rely on reviews by critics its so important to...

Well, sure. They used semicolons. You can't be literature without semicolons.

You might be surprised just how common that attitude is. Or you might not. This is one of the major reasons I despise the pretension...