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I wouldn't be at all surprised by a large number of people saying games are good for their mental health. The part that surprised me was...

How is trauma being defined here? 75% of participants saying they're using roleplaying to deal with trauma sounds like a huge number, to...

I'm a bit harsher - if someone's humming and hawing for too long I'll jump to the next player, knock the indecisive player's character a...

Oh, yeah, I also have the full set of *Without Number games, which I pick up in the knowledge there's likely to be something I can take...

I haven't played in either recently, but I found Kalamar more interesting than Greyhawk generally. Frandor's Keep (for Hackmaster) is an...

As some specific examples, I purchased pretty much every single Al Qadim boxed set, along with the Dark Sun OBS and Ivory Triangle boxed...

In my defense, I was quoting Gygax! B-)

I thought you said this was for 1e AD&D? ;)

Yes I would. Why? Because I prefer the mechanics of the system I'm using as my baseline rules to the system associated with the setting...

You're overthinking it. Adjust the Xp based on the monster's general capacities. That's it. I made an excel spreadsheet to model the...

If they're being generated by me, then most likely by the allocation of AC, HD and few other key values, and certainly not by following...

I totally agree that in many newer games, especially those of more narrativist style, the mechanics drive the story in significantly...

I think this issue of NPC and PC build and stats is an interesting one. D&D did not try to establish any sort of parallel or...

The problem with this as I've mentioned before is that players usually know the mechanics to at least some extent, and knowledge of the...

You're missing the point. People aren't going to stop thinking that way just because a game tells them to. Some approaches to engaging...