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I play in public. People don't laugh. They frequently ask what we're doing. Some even watch a full session. I speak about D&D in a very...

I'm now at the "fighting the scheduling monster" level of setting an in-person group up! ...started to remember why I've just defaulted...

Yeah as I have 4 PCs, the "default" number I'll be interested to see if 12 is fine with any number of PCs (it might be), or if it's kind...

Because it's exhausting to have conservative D&D players show up to all sorts of places across the internet going "I hate X new thing...

If you roll low, you fail to gain your objective/intent/etc. You lose. Your loss means something new needs to happen. To leave the...

All these posts boil down to is restating "I don't like it because..." over and over with different contrived straw arguments, willfully...

Some of us have been trying to belabor for idk somehow like 300 pages or some bs that the original example of "how do you fail forward a...

This is true - to the extent that it is - of all RPGing. I mean, it's all just "narrative dressing", that is, establishing shared...

I'm not sure where this stipulation of "fail forward" is coming from. "Fail forward" means that, on a failed roll/throw/check/test, the...

This is why it's worth asking, why use resolution mechanics in the first place. What are they for? what's the fun of the game? The...

As an aside on the crumbling cliff thing - why would we narrate such a thing in the first place? We know it's to provide a narrative...

I think this sort of depends on what you mean by "getting on the same page". Say if we are expanding the upthread example where someone...

Yeah this was the huge thing at the table when we played. No initiative tracking and no action tracking was an insane boost compared to...

Yeah. Now is not the time to bring out a d&d adjacent narrative-heavy game inspired by 4e or Apocalypse World, with 10 levels and...

I think it is worth noting that Matt's primary responsibility is NOT to run a fun game, but rather to run a game that entertains the...