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Yes, the issue of scale is separate from task versus conflict. As Vincent Baker said in his essay "Conflict Resolution vs. Task...

As I am one of only two people who have voted for "Roll for Intent" so far, I feel almost obligated to respond. First, I'd like to say...

One of the topics that comes up (you know, not often or anything ...) on D&D threads is the so-called "LFQW," or as other people like to...

I mean...some of us are literally living through that right now. There's no future about it.

It's great when 'this is an unlikely extrapolation for purposes of satire' becomes 'oh no, yeah'. c.f. The Handmaid's Tale

This is all well and good, but it has nothing to do with - totally fails to engage with - what I want to talk about, which the...

Good article, I agree mostly although I rate FMJ a lot higher (mainly based on the second half, which I think is stronger). Still...

I prefer evocative brevity. No one wants to hear me ramble on about streets and market stalls and whatever when they enter the city...

Your character has 50 HP. He takes 5 points of damage. What happened? Same character takes 49 points of damage. What happened? What...

See, again, this is the whole 6 impossible things before breakfast. HP make zero sense. AC is an abstraction that makes virtually no...

I don't really see how killing minions is much different than a high level AD&D Fighter cutting down a dozen kobolds in one combat round...

If the campaign has a "save the world" premise, and the PCs all die, then it seems to me that the world hasn't been saved! Bringing in...

I think this shows the force of @chaochou's post upthread: if the "plot" is maintained, and new PCs are brought in to try and carry it...

A separate PHB for each tier. Probably a separate MM too. Really focus on what makes each tier distinct, so players feel like they've...

OK I need someone to make me an actual mod real quick.