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Leaving game-world history lore aside, for a moment... Lore, typically, speaks in generalizations - it presents stereotypes. Insisting...

Meanwhile for me what I get by actively letting everyone create is never what I want and is 90% of the time actively better than what...

yep. Subclasses even at level 3 tie to much into your level 1 decisions. Both mechanical and narrative. Like pre choosing your...

And given how much some subclasses require deliberate L1 / stat choice that are very different then others, are many people really going...

I think the deeper question about starting with subclass at 1st level is "How much of your character concept is pre-defined before the...

Yeah? Like, I don't see Session 0 Lines and Veils as a trade off. I wasn't planning to drop sexual assault on the group, nor does it...

I don't see any trade-offs in the games I'm running, unless you mean that by being selective with who the group comprises such that...

As someone who plays a bard in Tales of the Valiant - I feel like Kobold Press got the balance a little better on their bards. They have...

I'm not even sure what this is anyway. There's something really fun about a player going "oh heck, your questions and framing took me...

Just to put things into perspective I'm simultaneously running two Daggerheart games right now for two groups with no one else in common...

In a bit of unexpectedly good news, my Monday group -- which has sort of been on haitus for a bit since our Vecna campaign fell apart --...

And here I was thinking it meant a form of GMing where everything is sung in Wagner-like operatic verse.

I run games that tend to collaborate highly, on lore and other things. At the end of each session, I make sure to collect “stars and...

I GM a lot, yes. Hey. If you want to get anything out of this discussion, you're gonna have to stop projecting your own emotional...

I’ve been watching Matt’s livestream from earlier today (not the pre recorded video ) and he mentions that Draw Steel sells hundreds of...