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I have often opened with a combat in the past but now I have moved away from that. It sets the tone that combat is the main schtick of...

Worth saying that @GuyBoy started his Vecna campaign in a novel way. Each PC was a member of a different adventuring group on a...

So I was looking at the other thread about the "new" Rule 0, and I noticed that some people were going into the usual conversations...

I intend to start my upcoming Call of Cthulhu (1920s) campaign by sending players details of the world in 1925 and also full pen...

I like to play generic D&D with the campaign starting at the mouth of a dungeon.

My two Stonetop campaigns, with a set of provocative questions at a few of the PCs to set the scene ("Judge, when the last kid went...

I don't consider those sessions wasted in the slightest, for a string of reasons: --- having to introduce their character in-character...

Bang is good. There will certainly be a bang in that scene. One of the travelers is badly wounded and there are things out there that...

I recently re-read Blood of Elves from the Witcher series and was struck by how it started. A dozen travelers sharing a campfire on the...

As a player multiclassing is probably my favorite part of 5E compared to older editions. I certainly don't want it any more restrictive...

I think you lose all credibility that your analysis has any objectivity whatsoever when you describe any and all design that you don't...

Yeah, I have the same issue, the complaints about minor issues (like whole thing with Barbarians being able to stealth with rage) and...

The OP is vocally anti-5.5e. This whole thread is designed to tell people how badwrongfun it is to play it.

I’m a big fan of Varkenbluff Museum from Keys from the Golden Vault. Evocative location with a lot going on. The Casino, Stygian Gambit...

Mr. Dorey's warehouse from the Styes (Ghosts of Saltmarsh) the whole module is creepy and disturbing in a Lovecraftian way, but fighting...