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IF player engagement is the goal of tournament design, why were so many of the tournament modules so lethal for PC parties? It's because...

This seems to almost always come back to definitions: Everyman: in D&D terms, it's a term referring to common folk who are NOT...

Isn’t everyone here bothered by elfgames? Like, WTH you even doing here if you’re not bothered by the elfgames, man?!

You can just give a chatacter a background and no class abilities to represent commoners. Giving background feats was nice, limiting the...

doesn't this latter part kind of retroactively undermine the idea of the character being an everyman? in most of the prior discussions...

Are you bothered by people being bothered about elfgames?

... if you're writing a story.

Glad you included the specifier. He certainly didn't do the Dungeon&Wilderness Guides or Dragonlance/Greyhawk setting hardcovers, nor...

It’s difficult to overstate how utterly novel role playing games were when they emerged in the 1970s. At a time when most games had...

And hence the reason this thread even exists. You can’t even mention other designers unless you acknowledge EGG first. All praise the...

I think it came out after D&D didn't it?

Having killer stuff in the first minutes of play is just poor design for a tournament adventure.

Tomb of Horrors has entered the chat :-)

It sounds like you're talking about an Background, NPC hireling, or level 0 or 1 character. What does a level 5, 10, 15, 20 GEC...

An everyman who doesn't adventure is a Commoner. Once you start adventuring you typically become something else, but an everyman...