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This is kind of the problem with "apolitical" spaces in the hobby. Even if you don't see this as a battle, the other side does. They...

The original printing of the 5e PHB had some rather unflattering descriptions of half-orcs, and under the heading "The Mark of Gruumsh"...

Complexity should exist to faciliate making the outcome interesting and giving the players meaningful choices. If your skill challenge...

Not with that attitude you can't!

SWADE and Pinnacle. SWADE works for pulpy action and multi-genre games and Star Wars fits that bill.

I expect Tigris is talking about RPG progress clocks as popularized by Blades in the Dark and described at this link, not mechanical clocks.

The goddess of defenestration never closes a door without opening a window.

I think a lot of people enjoy crafting aspects of various video games and try to translate those things into RPGs. But they work very...

One should not need protective gear to step outside one's domicile.

I'm sure it is. Selling lottery tickets is usually a good way of making money, moreso when you can outsource the payouts to the...

I'm pretty sure I've posted it here before, but Matt Colville has a pretty good video on the topic: Basically, the secret sauce seems...

See, that's the kind of thing I dislike. I mean, I'm happy you got a honeymoon off a Black Lotus, but to me speculative trading is...

In a reasonable system, the value you get from the cards you buy is in the enjoyment you get from playing with them. That's how toys...

As I recall, the Binder was also one of the first places where we started seeing encounter abilities. They weren't called that, but some...

Sigil-style pizza is round but has a hole in the middle of it. Radiant Citadel-style pizza just has an entire pepperoni stabbed through...