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Many moons ago I was a US Army infantryman. You would be surprised where you can sleep.

The X card is explicitly a safety tool, and none of that seems to be a safety issue.

Yeah. In presenting it, you're presenting yourself, as GM, as someone who wants to be thoughtful about things. That can go a long way.

I meant the existing 5E exhaustion mechanic.

Is that a valid use of the X card?

I recently started the audiobook of Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I have noticed a trend where I am engaged with and enjoy nonfiction...

I don't play in or run AL games. I assume there are built in systems for dealing with problem players, though? And, presumably, problem GMs?

I like the Momentum and Doom pools from 2d20 and use a variant in almost any game I run that has both sides metacurrency. I like the...

yeah, at a minimum I would add Luck and Doom for metacurrencies. That is probably enough though.

I used to run a megadungeon (Monte Cook's Dragon's Delve) at the local game store and this is what I did at the end of the session...

That is a benefit. I'm sure you could curate the choice in a way that avoids big disparities in PC capability.

You’d probably just hand out xp at chapters instead of after combats/challenges. I think I’d do that anyways, as a dm. FATE has...

I think D&D really relies on intra-party balance and systems like that (which are a sort of point buy system) can lead to different...

40k rpg did it and I loved it. The down side was there was so much cool stuff to buy and you couldn’t get it all. It would work well...

If I recall, Earthdawn used this sort of system where you level based upon having ranked up enough skills and powers, which then open...