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Neat ideas! I think that some sort of in-Initiative mode trigger to regen a resource that ties into the class fantasy would be cool too...

Nah, plenty of people enjoy playing D&D without thinking or caring about the rules at all. They just tend not to talk about it on the...

So here's what I'm thinking would be a decent place for the kind of powers the different classes get to pull out: Martials get 4...

I actually really like this thought, and think it could really help differentiate the classes if their encounter abilities are in...

I think the easy way is just to have the DM run a round tracker at the top of the DM screen, or a round-tracking die. On initiative...

All I will say is that any game that does not provide me with a different starting point when it comes to encounter design gets thrown...

Nonsense. The bathwater must be disposed of, infant and all.

and humans got by without penicillin, doesn’t mean they should abandon it once it was discovered If the lesson needs tweaking, then...

You know, we can save a LOT of time if we just reduce the DMG to "figure it out yourself". Encounter balance? Figure it out yourself...

Hey thanks for this write up. I've been meaning to get DS as I like Matt Colville from the two or so dozen videos I have seen of his but...

This is, in fact, how Daggerheart also describes it (if you weren't doing that consciously that's the literal example the game uses)...

In my own little system each character has three Near Deaths. They check one off when they reach 0 HP. Each Near Death grants a...

So DS! exists as a game which tries to extract the core ideas of 4e and get rid of a bunch of the D&D sacred cows that were left over...

If the game was designed to emulate the prose, one player could take down a dragon, solo. And also the dragon would be his son. Because...

Nether of those are the correct reasons. 1) common sense aversion to a death spiral. No one goes into danger when they are exhausted -...