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There's been a good amount of discussion about Skill Challenges in my feed lately. It tends to degrade into an argument about 4e that misses the point but I think pedantic arguments about implementation aside, there's a lot added to a game that uses skills in an interesting way that builds...

I updated that post with a few additional and aggregated links up at the top of the post as well.

I created a safety and consent RPG Checklist awhile back based on the material in Consent in Gaming from MCG. People kept referencing it on twitter and I didn't want to have them scroll through my feed to find it anymore so I put up a small post on the topic with links to that tool and to an...

Well, consider them all optional rules. :)

I wrote a blog post aggregating my advice and experience in Managing DM Anxiety that I hope is useful and wanted to link it. I'm never sure where to put these as I just have a blog, it's not making money, not pointing toward a patreon or anything and it didn't feel right to put in promotions...

This feels like code for something but I can't put my finger on it.

This is one of the kinds of modules I had in mind when I wrote this. I have read it but not run it yet. It's hard to get around to running on the modules between that and my own homebrew but eventually I likely will.

Thanks. I felt like Xanathar was needlessly complex myself, so I use this simpler system and it seems to work for me. CR seems an easily enough guideline for me.

I wrote a post I hope will help DMs create more engaging Captivating Traps for their DnD or TTRPG Game. "A good trap advances the plot or enhances the action… A great trap does both!" Read Captivating Traps by OptionalRule

I posted up my Thoughts on the First Issue of Arcadia. I thought it was pretty good and I can use pretty much all of the content in my own game. In particular the adventure makes a good one shot, and the Mounted Combat rules seem good but I need to think about these in relation to the Tasha's...

I created The Heart of Winter Magical Region for use in my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. Based on the Magic Regions rule from Tasha's Caldron of Everything. Use it to terrorize your players even more. https://optionalrule.com/2021/01/04/rotf-remix-heart-of-winter-supernatural-regions/

Sorry for any confusion. I didn't mean it would always do that. I was saying I'd want to watch my party to make sure it wasn't and a DM will want to flag that as something they want to pay attention to in their management strategy for it.

I can see this. It seems balanced as they're sacrificing an action to gain advantage. My hesitancy for things like this is that there are way more opportunity to use it against the players than the other way around. It would be rough for a player to be constantly (or more frequently) locked...

I don't see the need for this or what it adds to the game myself but that doesn't mean it's bad. What are you trying to accomplish with this? Are you trying to achieve better balance? Are you trying to add more excitement? something else?

I posted my remix of the Foaming Mugs quest from Rime of the Frostmaiden on my blog. I'm actually not sure if this is a promotion or not. I am not selling this or promoting a patreon or anything, it's just content I'm posting on my blog that I hope is useful for others. Anyway, I'm hope it's...

I don't really see how this isn't just Zoom and DnDBeyond. In frame sheet I am not sure I see the benefit of. I like battlemaps but not greally down with Roll20 anymore.

That's disappointing. I feel like they eventually screwed up 3/3.5 because of their fixation on trying to make revenue match World of Warcraft. Now to hear them trying to chase the e-sports dollar, I worry it'll lead to wierd monitzation strategies that will mess with the game and the player...

I thought I replied but it may have gotten lost. I'm up in the Glen Allen area. Getting back into RPGs. I'd prefer to play but can run if needed. Don't have DnD 5e but it's a possibility. I tend to like games like Burning Wheel, Dresden Files RPG and other Fate based games, Song of Ice and...

Hello all. I'm an older gamer in the far north west end and interested in finding a face to face group.. I tend to prefer games like Fate (Dresden or something else), Song of Ice and Fire, Burning Wheel and the like.

I expect PDFs to be priced to reflect any difference saved from moving from a physical product to a digital one but that's not as much as people think it is and I don't expect it to be a whole lot. I don't know there's a solution to this. 20 or 40 bucks for a PDF means you're just not going to...