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I agree, to a point. The issue becomes that monsters can never sneak up on/pick off stragglers, because there NEVER are stragglers. Many...

Yeah, this is part of the challenge of party order that sort of gets static fast. My experience hiking (and the constant concerns that...

Right, theater of the mind makes this a little blurry. This is why "shooting into melee" is often ill-defined depending on the edition...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. In theory, party order is a neat line where everyone stays in place. In reality, boredom, fatigue, and...

I missed this issue for some reason, but this? This is the same premise behind Peter Adkison's The Primal Order: The Primal Order -...

And I'd make all the dinos have feathers. "The entire park is just...a GIANT CHICKEN FARM?! BWAKH BWAKH BWAKH!" (that'll kill the...

In theory, the original point was to "give PCs something to spend their money on" but as you pointed out it can easily have the reverse...

Only if one player can only advance in levels by badly misunderstanding Chaos Theory and making endless philosophical speeches about it.

Soo...just playing through all the Jurassic Park movies in a row, basically (and somewhere in th emiddle, they reboot and new Stupid...

This was great to read, thank you for sharing! Got me thinking about my Philmont trip, part of a summer-long bus tour back in 1986. I...

This is one of those fun thought-experiment ideas that I think most tables got sick of after a while. Players love it, until you...

Yeah, to your point for low level parties a Gandalf-style NPC might make more sense. Sometimes though, it's just the bigger/stronger...

Not ours, but some went as high as 20+ yes. Our was 10, which was "adventurer sized" (still on the high side, but if you recall old...

I learned a lot from my week-long, 30-mile trek through the rugged Cimarron, New Mexico backcountry, and the parallels between managing...

In the early days of companies publishin their supposedly converted adventures from D&D 2.0 to D&D 3.5, the 5 ft. square (which we now...