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"Congratulations, you've now uncovered a group planning to overthrow the monarchy. They'll kill you unless they think you're with them."

Totally agree. One 10ft area at a time… bland, in my opinion. A region of a room seems likely a better method of searching. However, I...

I think what I’d really want from something like recovery time is the ability for PCs to act multiple times in a round (like if they’re...

This comes up a lot. It's definitely a major stumbling block to playing the PC as themselves and not as you, the player.

Absolutely true on the Insight 😂 My party was asking random people about a missing kid in a large-ish town and most didn’t know anything...

Like the spells, it's not so much that these were entirely new concepts, but that they functioned very differently. Being able to detect...

I think I saw something in the Knock zine - Time, skills, tools, potentially environment. If you have all of them, no roll needed...

I really like the Shadowdark approach. Basically for thief-y kinds of things, Thief characters are assumed to be successful if they...

Aha, that actually sounds a little like Angry GM’s recovery time system he came up with a little bit ago: Fixing Initiative Because I...

Makes sense, though I’d say the same thing sorta happens in normal 5e initiative. Players may decide on an action while waiting for...

Has anyone tried action declaration before initiative is rolled, ala older editions? I know there’s speed factor in the 2014 DMG that...

No, I want them to be ready on their turn not wake up and decide to do their research then, followed by jumping in when they're good and...

That and playing 3e for 16 years were probably the culprits in my initial confusion.

That’s a good way of thinking about it. Although I can’t explain how to craft some items…but still think it should be a skill. It’s...

Same. Plus knowledge skills. If a player can't answer the question, "How do you go about it?" then it's not a skill. But I'm a bit...