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Decaying magic items instead of charges. It was not a rule of my own creation, but it entirely changed the way people used magic items (for the better!) and made tracking much easier. The gist is that instead of 50 charges, an item might be a d10. Every time you use a charge, you roll the d10...

I would be extremely surprised if this was true. The Purple Pawn survey that was no the news page said that they track 6900 gaming businesses. You're talking about an average of 2 sales per book per business, including bigger businesses like B&N or Amazon. Since the big stores obviously pull the...

In a different forum someone pointed out that the card rarities and factions are not as clearly explained as they'd like. I thought I'd update just in case anyone enjoys the deck building aspect of card games and wanted to give that side of the game a look. There are three rarities: Common...

My take on puzzles is that they are (usually) there for the humans beings at the table, not the characters in the game. There is just little narrative defense for a puzzle in the game. As people have pointed out, why does this ancient wizard need a puzzle to remember his 5 digit code? I remember...

Captain Planet? Joking aside that actually does sound pretty neat. I am imagining it in Avatar style art design which would be pretty perfect. If you find something, I'd be interested.

We created a mini-game for use during D&D sessions. We wanted something that didn't break the fantasy and games like Three Dragon Ante never caught on for us. The game has organically evolved into something pretty fun. I'm looking for some folks to give it a try and give me feedback to break out...

Another good answer, but not what I had in mind. In particular, the middle two lines would be sort of weak clues if that was the answer.

My group did stat draft for several years as our preferred method during high school. We thought we were very creative for coming up with something so unique... Our method was to do 4d6, drop the lowest with the GM rolling a set as well. We then rolled a d20 to determine initial selection order...

That's a surprisingly good effort. I'll put a caveat that all these riddles were designed to be used in D&D and I wouldn't introduce real world knowledge like that. Regardless, you're close.

The amazing thing to me is that the contributions were fairly steady throughout the project. Usually you see a big bump at the start and then nothing, but Rich just kept growing. He did an interview on Kickstarter where he says that people have often asked for ways to donate to him but he...

Those kind of tasks are the reason they created movie trilogies and alcohol. It doesn't *have* to be all bad....

If forced to choose I'd say diminished, but really it has just slightly solidified my impression that WotC is moving farther away from me. I look at 4e and objectively see a solid RPG, it just isn't an RPG directed at my preferences, and that's okay. I probably haven't been a very profitable...

There is a difference between "making a D&D board game" and "making D&D a board game." They've done the former several times to significant acclaim, but linking the flagship product to a board game is very different. The way I read the OP, it is pretty clearly suggesting the later.

A key change over time (in my experience) has also been the attitude of the player base towards the products. In 2e, almost everyone I gamed with viewed themselves as a collector of D&D products. If we saw an old module on sale, we picked it up just to have it knowing we'd never run it. When 3e...

Purely my speculation, but I cannot imagine them moving towards "board game" for 5e without alienating the huge majority of the fan base. That said, I think board games can offer a lot of insights in making the game more physical. Every table has a few players that just have to sketch, stack...

I prefer the same rules, with a pin stuck to ensure NPCs have simple rules. That is, ideally, both PCs and NPCs are built with rules that allow them to be simple and quick to create.

I think that is in express violation of the "Eric's Grandma rule."

New editions bring with them lots of stuff to get hyped about. New art, new ideas, energy in the community (in all honesty, reading flamewars is sort of fun so long as you don't get sucked into them), and a company dumping millions of dollars in a short period of time to get you interested and...

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