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I'll probably expand the Non-Combat Conflict section to better answer these questions. But since it's the chassis that combat is built on, I don't want to build the same car twice. Progress is about reframing the scene. The fiction and the extended conflict move in tandem. The Guide asks for...

Well, all of the above. The rules work from a purely logical perspective, so the presentation of how to engage is important. Otherwise, the game's not playable, even if the gears don't grind. Please let me know if these revisions resolve your notes: Possibilities are endless, so...

Thank thee. "You" is already plural. I . . . wouldn't look to the South for grammatical guidance. Ain't that right?

If authentic, this local, Philly specialty explains a lot for me:

At your recommendation, I was able to grab the Paragon SRD off the web. I didn't see a lot of detail to the player narration, though. The GM presents a threat ("Hazard"), everyone rolls, PCs who didn't win describe their "suffering," and the PC who wins (if any) uses cues from Name, Domain...

Thanks for taking a look, pemerton. You've got me questioning my decision to leave "what's a GM" and "how to role-play" out of the module 🤓 But I'll set that aside for now. Here are some attempts at clarification, in case a little clarity inspires you to let me know how I might word things...

It's a good thing that I went on, in the same post, to recommend showing a map briefly when players have problems. Terrain doesn't cease to exist just because it's not on a map.

Right. Bite-sized chunks. Well, the Getting Started section doesn't cover anything you don't already know (except maybe the GM's ability to shape the game as well as the setting), so here's the most basic of basics (and the rule numbers it addresses, 002 and 003): The Contest (002, 003) Before...

Sounds like an opportunity for a DM's Guild sourcebook. Although I bet EN5ider has plenty of material there, already. I'm wondering if the WotC marketing division just found that "disease" ranks right up there in term popularity with "race."

Full heal on rest, negligible chance of perma-death, roll to solve all problems, Ooh Shiny classes out the door . . . WotC is just going after its market. I'd call that N'Sync.

I have to applaud. Some people don't admit that they've made mistakes.

I mean, I don't read Ayn Rand for a reason . . .

I think I see Waldo! Yes, I like the color tiles much better. This looks like a great project for GM-less / GM-sharing games. Are there rocks ahead? "If there are, we'll all be dead!"

Has "ooh, shiny!" leaked into RPGs? I submit Monte Cook Games' Invisible Sun and Darrington Press's Daggerheart for consideration. Not an RPG (by design), but Cards Against Humanity is a great example of function succeeding over form.

Given the typical results of an encounter with an Alien, I'd expect similar results from a dinosaur encounter, and would think that Alien(s) games would handle Jurassic Park well.

Lewpuls is ahead of his time.

This isn't quick, but it's still awesome (magic starts halfway through): Rubik's would be pretty cool if it was, "get 5 yellows on one side. Go!" But anyway, I don't know what game you're playing that says, "no players may be entertained if it's not their turns" (although I have a guess), but...

I much prefer mapless play if I'm forced to be behind a (computer) screen. It's so much easier for everyone to just imagine what the GM says, instead of listening to what the GM says, and then waiting for what happens on the VTT to match it perfectly, and then debating why it doesn't. My...

I trust ENWorld to find more. I found one already. The goblin entry says that they are "fey!" 🤓

More 5e books? C'mon!