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Draw Steel. IMO we may never see that game and even if MCDM does deliver, it won't even have the impact Shadowdark has.

This is a situation where what I want to be true just won't be. I'd love for Daggerheart to explode onto the scene and take the rpg...

Or any other D&D I'd care to play, frankly.

Yeah, agreed. I was at uni around 1995 and the feeling in our whole RPG society was that D&D was old news, stale, done. I had a home...

Can I prove a negative? No, that is not how the burden of proof works. Claims are not true unless proven false. Why am I explaining...

Everyone talking about how PF was a threat to DnD and Vampire is just sitting over there in the corner all forgotten lol. There was a...

Can you prove it?

Yep. I’m so bad with names generally, real life too, that I just can’t make them up on the fly. I mean I can, they’ll just suck. Bob...

My big hang-up with names is wanting cultural consistency. I could rattle off a dozen made up fantasy names, but I try to use stuff like...

Yeah, I've run 2 1-20 5e campaigns in my setting. I have another that's like 40 sessions in, and I started a fourth (this one in Tales...

I'm writing my own setting, and the longer the PCs stay somewhere, the deeper that somewhere gets. I'm happy to have PCs go back to a...

The fact you think a campaign that says in a place is harder to prep than one that moves around, and my experience is that it works the...

I think I agree that if the PCs are staying where they are for a while, it's easier to run with less prep than if they are persistently...

i feel like we’re doing the idea of prep a disservice by arguing extremes. “Zero prep” vs “multiple hours writing up encounters”. Maybe...

Thank you for the responses - they've been most helpful. Someone asked for a definition of "prep." To my mind, it is dedicated time...