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The GM piece is usually overlooked. Player driven doesn't mean the GM sits back and waits, but a lot of GMs seem to think so.

I leaned hard into a player-driven approach for my last campaign. (5e 2014.) It worked okay, but not nearly as well as I hoped, and my...

It's got a more-or-less medieval tech level, with elves and humans and dwarves and hobbitspolders and castles and knights and towns and...

Also whilst I mentioned he is good at hiring the right people, it's come to light that the process they use to do this is sometimes...

You’d be wrong. I’ve posted in the DS! thread and on its subreddit about the relatively small amount of work I had to do to map DS! To...

I gotta say, it’s about as hard to use DS! in a generic setting like FR as it is to use Daggerheart. That is to say, not very.

Yeah this is what intrigues me, because I'm not sure there's really much unoccupied design space for this, given it's starting from the...

have you ever backed a Kickstarter? There usually is pretty frequent communication, progress updates, playtest material, etc. DS! had...

I am using The Arcanopolis Eye as my way of doing session recaps for my Fantasy Edwardian Magitech Superhero game.

Swen has specifically said it's a bad thing, so it seems very strange for him to be aiming for that. Yeah, because honestly Larian made...

I think online culture has gotten so obsessed with constant information flow that a lot of people are incapable of responding with a...

I'm struggling to equate a player who commits to a "long term ongoing multi-year campaign" with "casual."

I tried to run Dread as a long-running ...well several session anyway... campaign using the Oregon Trail. It works well for a Series...

It's normal and it's abnormal, in the sense that it should be happening but because of a variety of cultural and economic factors older...

I think the more interesting thing to me is how clustered the new hires and promotions have been in age. It's kind of poetic to me that...