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I did this to good effect for a high level, god-hunting D&D game for a convention. I tweaked the formula a little each session and...

I think with full characters, who have languages, they're a way to offer additional lore and info dumps. Think of the books in CRPGs --...

4e kinda did that but then they got greedy with other stuff and we still had insurmountable games to manage. Right now I'm running a...

This is a good question. What is the point of these languages? Outside of simulation purposes, what do they add to the game?

None of the PCs in Heroes of the Borderland speak any language but Common (presumably -- they have no languages listed at all). What is...

The format has or is soon changing as well: big fat quartly hardcover instead of monthly softcovers.

A couple players from my steampunk/aetherpunk supers convention campaign Carole me into running a monthly game of it. The Arcanopolis...

I've got the biggest crush on Sunita Mani. I didn't learn that today. I've known since I watched GLOW.

Nuts ... add another campaign idea to the pile. I've always found that I prefer DnD that is a pretty big tent, genre-wise. It's why...

For clarity, I did not mean reducing the number of levels. I meant eliminating or replacing low level.abilities with higher level ones...

There are three high-level campaign paths in City of Arches, two of which go to 20th level.

Yes, assuming the innovations were ones I liked ... but .. Here's the big "it depends" ... systems like this do require broader buy-in...

Thank you guys for all this! I knew bits and pieces of these facets of the history of the publishings and magazines, but not the full...

I have considered this a number of times for a convention campaign, but have yet to pull the trigger.

I wonder if any success has ever been had with a campaign that wasn't strictly linear - where the players had x different character...