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It's been really disruptive when he's brought it up in YouTube comments for music videos.

I too sometimes experience cognitive dissonance when Mearls says "Here's what's wrong with 5E!" But in Mearls' defense, his job with...

Mike has been saying all around the internet and in threads here recently that their heuristic in designing and evaluating the survey...

Isn't that good? Realizing your mistakes and fixing them? I'm very confused by this post.

Hello I would like to hear more about this, lol.

He's talking about the AI generated response at the top of a Google search, not the direct use of an LLM by the user.

I like his design here. It’s focused around small overheads to make swapping to face epic level changes in context something a Wizard...

In the context of "we're focusing on one big fight, not an attrition model", does a high level wizard having 5 5th level slots with 5...

I thought I’d be running Ptolus in SD, but my players surprised the heck out of me and want me to run Dolmenwood (when OSE has not been...

I am not a fan of most fantasy names, with their apostrophes and not-found-in-the-wild structures. When I'm making names for roleplaying...

What I do think is fairly modern is a clear set of statements of how to best be a player and a GM such that the game is successful in...

Gotcha, DS! has overkill which is a pretty standard feature of “minions as heroic awesomeness fodder” design.

This is more or less where Draw Steel! landed as well. Any hit over the individual reduces the pool and you figure out how many more die...

My minion approach is to give them a pool of communal hit points. So 20 soldiers for an 11th level party might have 300 hit points (15...

I like the way minions are handled in "Flee Mortals!" (Any successful hit will kill one; if you go over the damage threshold, you can...