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The first campaign I ran, I put a lot of careful thought into population distributions and city sizes and these kinds of things. And then I realised that this was a lot of work and ultimately had no meaningful impact on the game. Now, the largest cities in my campaign have lots of people...

Would make underwater combat a bit dull if you couldn't swim and hit someone on the same turn.

Last session was one of the most enjoyable I've had. I had very little preparation to do, as the players had spent enough time dicking about that I'd significantly overprepped for previous sessions. Kicked off with an entertaining bit of NPC chatting before they struck off on their plan. As...

While you're correct about how many GMs actually play DnD, the actual rules of 5e are the same as what you're implying about DW (never read those rules). You ask for a Perception check only when a player describes an action that would require one to resolve. If you need to determine whether or...

I am a big fan of dice rolls, even wholly unnecessary ones that no one else can see. When I'm designing my adventures and encounters, I decide that the villain will have 1d12 gp on him, rather than just writing 6 gp; or that some effect will happen 1d3 rounds into the combat. There is no real...

So I voted that I had read it cover-to-cover, but then realised that's not strictly true. I didn't read most of the magic items. There is also the separate question 'how much of its content do I actually remember and use in playing or planning games', to which the answer would be 'very little'.

I also found that comment really odd. I'm not really sure what it would mean for a publisher to write 'this is a non-optional rule!' apart from making them sound very insecure. I'm getting a little worried what happens if the DnD police find out I didn't allow half-elves or half-orcs in my...

I play online mostly these days, and my regular group consists of 5 different nationalities from both sides of the Atlantic. I think that modern communication has, to an extent, erased cultural differences in playstyle (within the Anglosphere, at least). Different groups all play differently, of...

Seems to me this is hinted at in the descriptions given. At higher levels you can gloss over travel between Townsville and Cityton; but they use the same sort of mechanic which worked at lower levels for mundane travel to represent travel between planes of existence; or something like that. At...