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Life is a highway, I'm gonna ride it all night long.

Ok, let's back up a second shall we? We're all DM's. All of us here are running games. So, that means that every single poster here...

But that NPC will likely only be present in the campaign for a tiny fraction of time. That PC will be present (barring unforeseen...

One thing I like about thresholds is that they make cranking up a PCs damage output strong but not obviously optimal. As long as a PC...

Just from conversing with them over the years, I know @pemerton and @Manbearcat are often in agreement but also have different styles of...

Oh yes we are! (Granting I'm not sure who you are referring to). Soft pedalling failure and coddling players is just crappy play! You...

I simply don't see that as a problem. I see that as good design. I find the game more interesting when my role is to depict the...

For sure. If you're looking for play that's more like 5 minutes per turn chess over blitz chess, then we're definitely going to be...

So you don't want something like that? One of the most memorable moments in gaming history?

That's interesting. But not entirely surprising, I guess. There is a tendency for notions from indie RPGs to be picked up as slogans...

Half the reason Blades in the Dark exists is because John Harper hates planning, of any sort. The reason the equipment system works the...

Because it's not about the player - it's about the character, independently of who is playing them. I am fan of the characters in the...

Doing things that make sense isn't the goal. The goal is to craft an interesting story. It's hard to create an interesting story...

And I disagree with this. To me, this seems like a pretty obvious poor use of the word. If you create a definable metric of behavior...

Okay, this was the session note for the fourth of a series of related adventures with a group I called the Hexagram, which were trying...