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Just read the slamming rules on forced movement. Those are absolutely insane! I think I have never been so happy and excited reading any...

I have run games where one of the players was the host and it worked ok. That even made it easy for him to have us come check on his...

Yea I was thinking more about the well trod metagaming social structure where the player with a job in sales or something gets to...

Not necessarily. Trying to learn a motivation/pitfall without outright asking is a power roll using Reason, Intuition, or Presence. 11-...

Haven't finished reading the new PDF yet but Iirc NPCs also have a value for how patient they are. If you need to ask it counts against...

One thing I in theory like about negotiations is that they've formalized motivations/pitfalls into 12 rough categories: benevolence...

I didn't back Draw Steel. At the time of the kickstarter I was pretty firmly convinced that I was strictly a "Theater of the Mind" DM...

I ran some of the earlier packets at a nearby FLGS and we had a blast. Haven't had time to skim or read through the two books/PDFs that...

Since they came up... I think that the `gameplay benefits of those 3.5 ~750gp ~50 charge CLW wands were far superior to 5e's mundane...

YES. Unless the group has strong roleplayers, it's pretty easy to end campaigns early. IME bad roleplay is like watching a really bad...

I don't think so but maybe for different reasons than the ones Umbran mentioned. Most of the 5e campaigns I played or ran tended to fall...

Most of my games run into low to mid teens but I have very little doubt about that 7th level stat being reasonably accurate based on...

I tried many things to make healing potions interesting treasure in 5e and could never fix the two pronged core of the problem in a way...

None. In 5E, so many classes have healing features that I simply don't bother.

Mike's post resonated with me; I think we come from similar traditions. :) FWIW, I'm excited about the "fifth generation" he's...