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I've made a bunch of improvements to the build instructions. Most notably, I was able to get the default cost down from $1,700 to $1,405! And with a few compromises, it can be built for as little as $820. (Plus shipping.) I've also added schematics for other size tables, including a 3.5' square...

knock knock Corpsegrinders! (Part of a very silly plan on the part of the party to gain entrance to a castle.)

Build instructions! I've attached my draft write-up for how to build the game table. Don't feel like you have to read it, but if you do, I'd like your feedback. I'm particularly interested in hearing about how clear the instructions are, and of course if there's any serious mistakes.

Definitely. It wasn’t cheap, but still less expensive than any other option, even building it myself out of hardwood (not that I could).

The table’s done! I’m thrilled with how it turned out. I’m going to put together build instructions for it anyone’s interested.

My group enjoyed Zeitgeist quite a bit. War of the Brurning Sky was also good, but was a bit of a slog in the last few adventures. That might have been more a 4e problem than a campaign problem, though.

This is super interesting, thank you! I see how that could work for most of the gaming I do. I do a lot of small-scale improv at the table and it usually works better than things I planned in advance. But I don’t see how it would work for site-based games. Dungeons, ruins, etc… the kind of...

A stream is a lot to ask, but I’m genuinely interested in learning more. I’d like to do more player-driven campaigns, but the prep work was my Achilles heel.

I leaned hard into a player-driven approach for my last campaign. (5e 2014.) It worked okay, but not nearly as well as I hoped, and my experience was similar to yours: they stopped doing their homework and struggled with analysis paralysis. It ended up being too much work for me, so I brought...

Previous campaign: the PC is presumed to still be there, but “off camera,” and fights were rebalanced so their fair share of monsters are also off-camera. Current campaign is a very silly megadungeon called The Grande Temple of Jing. When players are absent, a slot in the floor opens and their...

I just got to the "Threats" section of book 1. (This is about creating and running persistent threats.) This section is so good. I'm really seeing how I can use this to make a world that's alive and interesting. I particularly loved the examples of threats that . There's so much great...

That caught my eye too. :cool: I haven't gotten that far yet, but I'm looking forward to it!

I just backed Stonetop after hearing good things for the past two months. I'm only on page 82 of the first book, but I'm very impressed! I'd love for you to share your experiences with playing Stonetop. Roll +CHA: on a 10+, pick 2; on a 7-9, pick 1. On a 6-, realize that [+] means "positive...