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It's still there for me...

I see Matt channeling his love of the ideas behind Red Hand of Doom into half of the core of his game's signature adventure.

Let me introduce you to a fantastic meme

"average TTRPG is deeply invested in simulation and lore" factoid actually just statistical error. average TTRPG player cares minimally...

Scientists have recently discovered a new question that was previously hypothetical: What makes setting lore "actually antimatter" to...

You're not really "tracking" that per se in that it's not ongoing. It becomes part of the action resolution, in the same way as...

I would argue that even when everybody is into the lore, it's better to sprinkle the lore in on a need-to-know basis, rather than...

Fair enough, but I've never let popularity change my preferences.

I get that, and I know most people play that way, and I played that way for years, and honestly I sometimes still do when I'm caught...

Yeah but while there’s a handful of people like you, threads like this wouldn’t exist if this was a common paradigm in the hobby.

OMG! Someone else knows of Freebooters on the Frontier! yay!!! That is such a masterclass game! Sorry for aside, just gushing :P

This is a bit of an aside, One of the coolest PBTA “knowledge” moves is from Freebooters on the Frontier: “Establish When you...

I came into this thread expecting more conversation about making a setting that matters to the people playing the game. And so that's...

I'm actually someone that is very much capable of making something that is attached to the (canon) settings and to fulfill those kind of...

Hey. So as some will know back in August I took my first steps into paid DMing. It wasn’t something I did lightly but I’ve been DMing...