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My sympathy, @Umran, and I wish you the best in not letting yourself get pulled into grief in advance. I've failed to do so with any of...

I've been planning to pick up the main book there. Edit: Hmmm. Apparently that's one of the books not on sale.

FWIW, the WORST chaotic evil thing I’ve seen someone do with a shopping basket occurred earlier this year. Several of us were walking...

Yeah, the people at the table are OK with knowing it happens in the setting, they just don't want their faces shoved in it (or it shoved...

Veils seem especially useful, IMO. That thing is still happening in the game world, but we're handling it off screen. Except in very...

I've not used any of them, though I think I understand them in principal. Veils seem to just have some finesse that X-Cards and Lines...

Though the degree of moving parts and special-casing in D&D components can make it more than trivial to ignore those settings even if...

Or, honestly, its long since been solved by the presence of other game systems in the first place. I'm on record as noting that the...

General. The author told me it can easily be used with Dungeons & Dragons.

@el-remmen, my current game is similar. I'm running Out of the Abyss and it starts off with the PC's being prisoners of hte Drow and...

Hmmm. That might be worth a read. Is it generalized or aimed at particular systems or kinds of system?

More new reading for 2025 (though I expect it will also tip over into 2026). Carved in Stone: A Storyteller's Guide to the Picts (RPG...

Out of curiosity, would a Veil do when those come up? The reason I ask is that I respect the idea of safety tools, but maaan I can't...

There are at least two categories of situation where honest people of good will can’t just plan ahead avoid them. 1. Someone is...

I'd say some players care about worldbuilding if they do it. Some really don't, except in the broadest sense possible. They're there...