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No, I'm not among the people I'm worried might lose interest if their first experience with the game is extra frustrating. However, yes...

To clarify, I am not the GM.

So my group is finally starting a Daggerheart campaign. We're keen to explore the system and all it has to offer. However, there are...

Interestingly, I think (TSR-era) D&D is 'about' easy-come/easy-go advancement and setbacks, and keeping PCs in a goldilocks zone of...

On a real level, there are conversation-spaces which are accretion zones for people or topics that designers want to keep out of other...

Full ham I would believe. Full Monty not so much.

It is a nice spin. Kasidy Yates, and more often than not Keiko O'Brien get the same treatment. What it does, though, is cuts them off at...

The TSR-era contained multitudes, pretty much from the beginning (and certainly by '75-'76, once the supplements started coming out). It...

Oh, I know. I'm just voicing my personal position.

Wish they were doing this for Invisible Sun instead/as well. We (my group) love the promise of the game, but really feel like the system...

Who proceeded to think, "man, I'd really like to eat that otter or gull..." ;) As mentioned upthread, there might have been some...

Agreed. Other than a preference for 'Gygaxian prose,' exactly what 1e has that is positive (especially if the point of comparison is 2e...

Oh, there are quite a few that I have no recollection of too. I just don't like the framing -- "literally so forgotten," "no one...

I hate the framing they did with that (while at the same time understanding why they did so). Frame the article as you the reader are...

From people in my sobriety group who have partook: "it smells like you need some more." That's the one consistent thing I hear -- any...