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It certainly damages dramatic tension, but people around here (Los Angeles) who have already played something are pretty good about knowingly walking into ambushes. On the other side of the question, replay provides at least one big advantage - in LG and Pathfinder Society, I have to haul...

Let's not go overboard with our description of a fictional setting.

And some additional observations: NPC vs. NPC fights are boring. They can happen in two places, so spend as little time on those mechanics as possible. The Red Plumes are fewer in number but tougher than the bandits, so keep that in mind when you choose a method of streamlining. I've been at...

Here are some notes I wrote for the Los Angeles judge crowd. General: This scenario has two plot tracks based on whether the PCs support the Red Plumes or attack them as bandits. Don’t push them to either track, but they do have to choose a side. Print page 12 as a handout (6 copies). Part 1...

An excuse to transplant this from the Wizards' board, where I was replying to Pauper: I ran this five times at GenCon. The final copy is much clearer than the playtest. Explanations of things have changed, and some additional possible PC actions are accounted for. The flow and mechanical...

I do a significant amount of judging. I find the rewards "good enough", though hardly generous. The original campaign rules gave a small amount of XP but no gold. In theory, then, I could have pushed a character up to 5th level or so and broke. As of Season 2, the XP comes with a small amount of...

Comic-con still has comics; the movies and TV haven't completely taken over. D&D Adventurers League and Pathfinder PFS had 8 tables this year. That's fewer than in the past because of a late administrative change. Comic-con gets mostly walk-ins looking for something different to do, so it's...