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I'm in the same boat. If you'd asked me a year ago which D&Desque game I was most interested in I'd have said Draw Steel in a heartbeat...

I’m not saying that I’ve never seen this. I’m just saying that it’s easily addressed without abandoning what is otherwise an interesting...

Lol. We aren't narrative, I have no real experience with playing narrative games. I'd be doing a massive disservice to that style I...

I think this sort of pawn stance with a splash of colour thrown over it is very common. And is what a typical D&D module/AP encourages...

It’s a less serious problem than 4e. The problem with 4e was that solos got one or two attacks against the PCs 4 or more. A DH solo...

For a Kickstarter involving multiple millions of dollars, the updates have been exceptionally sparse and frankly unnecessarily limited...

I mean, by that logic, you could say Draw Steel! was a crunchier and more tactical D&D 5E, because you roll 1d20 and the ability...

FWIW, this is an optional rule 2014 5e and I’m assuming 2024 as well under “alternate ability scores” or whatever.

I remember when I was running a game for entirely new players/friends in the middle of the 2020 “everybody’s online” period they kept...

I think that when it comes to player loss of control of character… whether as a result of some kind of supernatural effect like magic or...

I think this is separate from the issue of rolling dice. I'm sure in the history of human beings there have been cases where a single...

IMO any system with multiple resources opens the aperture to some really good play, FITD being my favorite example. About the only style...

And the simple answer is "because I want to do a range of things as part of a varied campaign where we get to keep the same characters...

As @Campbell noted, you can run something that looks like mysteries very well in a fiction-first game using a set of procedures I don't...

You absolutely can for a scene or two. The rules are even right there. It's a Red Wedding level threat. You're not fighting the system...