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In a skill-based system you could have a specialized skill that improves over time to control navigation there.

The big problem with staggered squares is that if you want to use battleboards, they're difficult at best to find physically and as far...

As I see it, this is just one of the trade-offs involved in game design. Sometimes, you know the game will be easier to work with on the...

I doubt there's a consensus on wanting that.

Well, "always" depends on how you interpret OD&D clerics, where there was simply no discussion of the matter at all. I suspect when...

Oh I am definitely not recommending having a small pool of players or DMs as a general remedy for any kind of problems with a gaming...

I'm evildmguy, and I'm a recovering KS TTRPG backer. Well, no, I have backed recently, so I guess I'm off the wagon. Of 132 backings...

Yep. I could make a decent character out of any of these, although I'd still want to choose placement. The last one in the list of 3...

I have just tried it again with ChatGPT. Do you remember the pictures of the heroes of Dragonlance around the fire? I asked it to create...

Yeah, but there you have no choice: its your whole product. The people doing the stretch goals, on the other hand, do.

The problem is that even if you do that, there's no assurance that the pricing and practicality at the point you put them up as a...

Investigative horror games in particular have risk but they don't tend to assume a particularly high level of PC mortality.

There are some (like "10 Candles") that start with that premise, I feel that this is broadly incorrect. Horror can end in a TPK, but it...

Yeah, as one of the old farts of the board, I can say in the '70's that really top-down GMing was treated like it was the expected way...

Power-tripping DMs/GMs/Storytellers etc. are a real thing, and sometimes that power-tripping manifests as being a "killer DM"...