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So, for anyone who might not know, Daggerheart has an interesting mechanic called Death Moves where, when your character drops to 0 HP...

Conversational flow and having the player say how they defend themselves. I say "Balhorn, the elf gestures in your direction and a...

Most games where the dm doesn’t roll have the players make all rolls. So a roll randomized still happens it’s just the player rolling...

I tried this last night and while there was a little confusion as we all got the math around right it was definitely more cinematic and...

I think it's clear he's sincerely realizing that modern D&D isn't for him. That happens all the time, without anyone having a...

Breaking the quote down to respond to point by point. I’m sorry, but this claim is extremely dubious to me. 5.14 has always been...

Fortunately, both online discourse and the industry as a whole have gotten a lot better about explicit design goals over the last decade...

I read that and thought “Okay, so it’s not the story he had in his head” but it does emulate other kinds of fantasy. Again, what I...

This is tangental to the thread of discussion here, but this is one of my favorite things about games that have rolls when there's...

Sure, but that also happens when players make all the rolls. If I roll, I'm surprised by the players. If I don't roll, I'm surprised by...

We were wondering what it meant to him in this context. You provided none, so it was kinda confusing. If you’d said “he wanted a world...

I mean, you tossed out a strange statement without any context so of course we're going to read things into it? "Grounded" is such a...

Regardless, I wish they'd done an alternate "GM doesnt roll" setup in the book to carve out that more narrative space instead of making...

Yep. It's pretty common among those who are newer to the hobby, and especially those who are focused on implementation and technique...

Thinking about how I can stop rolling the d20. The Evasion math seems pretty easy to turn into a "roll under" Evasion roll, I can simply...