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Would anyone be having this discussion about the morality of minion mechanics if you didn't also dislike minion mechanics for...

The fun I remember were the antics of my players and their characters. The fun thing I did as DM, I feel, was provide the platform...

Is Shadowrun a D&D derivative? Not last time I looked. A lot of modern and futuristic games are more willing to have non-combat...

A note after running some sessions, a lot of your T1 adversaries have way more stuff going on then I think the game intends for that...

In one of the Daggerheart threads, I posted a link to a bunch of adversaries I made. Well, I've done a major update to that doc: new...

I've seen it used plenty of times, sometimes in pretty bad ways and sometimes in perfect ways. Back when I used to run games for money...

I haven't carved through this whole thread yet but I'll toss in my experiences. The first time I saw the need for an X-Card was during...

I am a big proponent of prepping situations rather than stories. If you focus on the situation as it is, the entities that have an...

Sure, but I generally don't really care nearly as much about the mechanical bit (within bounds of not breaking things) as the effect of...

Yeah, it's a great temptation. In an irony, it leaves the crit rate stll 1/12... 10/120 vs 12/144. But it also ups the odds of fear...

As I’m throwing together stuff for my games, I’m having a lot of fun messing with the dice. Splitting the roll and giving each a context...

D&D has had five structural lineages: Basic, Advanced, 3.x, 4E and now 5E. There is no real reason to suggest a 6E should be an...

5E is great. My favorite edition of the game. But it still has a lot of stuff that annoys the hell out of me. My wish list is basically...

I'd also do something about Tiers, and Campaign Frames. Now the wheels are turning...

I like how both Tales of the Valiant and LevelUp approach born and learned traits. Whatever WotC's next version of D&D is should do the...