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It seems to hold as long as Scribe's using "cannot be done" in the sense of "is impossible" as opposed to "must not", which is how I...

Even if your slot stays as listed, I'd recommend planning on finishing early. Most people won't complain about having more time...

Always use and provide pregenerated and pre-equipped characters. With rare exceptions, the generation process always takes more time...

Good, because I'm not defending it. :) I think minions are one of 4e's poorest mechanic ideas.

Yes it is, to the point where this should pretty much go without saying. Get the mechanical simulation of its physicality vaguely right...

Let me get this straight 150 peasants (why not 1,000? 10,000?) armed with slings at the ready all have clear shots at the dragon...

The best advice I can give is to judge time very closely, and cut material so that you give the group the most important scene or...

Ive read it and I dont how people call it the best thing ever. What am I missing? It seemed pretty generic. We are talking about the...

Yeah kind of a head scratcher why the hard back didn't combine the starter and essential boxed sets into a combined campaign.

I lucked out and got the free Beyond version offered during the Pandemic. I was disappointed that both Phandelver and the Shattered...

Great post. Glad to see follow up on this a year and a half later.

One of the most interesting shifts in the AI movement is while we are advancing forward....in a weird way we are having to go more old...

Wanted to add, while the implementation is different from LLMs or image generation, Alphafold is using transformers and diffusion models...

Granted what most people have quoted when they talk about this is the revolution in protein shape analysis currently happening right...

This thread reminded me, I did run the Pathfinder AP Kingmaker and thought the domain system was a lot of fun. Nothing I would port...