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"Boardgames don't call to action at all! There is no protagonism in a board game. - "I gather that you've never played "Wrath of Ashardalon". - One time I played "Zombies!" at a game store. The game ends when (a) the helipad tile is played into the board map and (b) one character (one...

"Is it core to RPGing to aim at the sorts of featurs that generate praise in literary or theatrical reviews? My view is no. Other posters in this thread think the answer is yes - that the participants in a RPG should be aiming to entertain one another through performance and narration." Whoah...

"Must've been pretty hectic if you don't know if you ran 4 or 5 games." - David Anderson Jr. "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself." - Harry Callahan

"One easy example is a 5th level empowered shatter spell (available to a 9th level sorcerer) which should deal roughly 32 damage." Shatter will destroy all the wagons in the area of effect. When you said "a street full of wagons", did you mean a street that's 40' long? Catapult can destroy a...

"If you're a spellcaster level 10 or below that wants to destroy a street full of wagons (huge resilient objects with 15 AC, but 27 hps) in a round, what spells would you use and how would you do it?"Answer: You don't. You are not powerful enough, at level 10, to accomplish that much...

I raised a question on the first page, about parameters of the term for purposes of the thread. AFAIK, no one has even tried to answer that question as asked. How many paladins can dance on the head of a needle?

In the highly theoretical event that I was handling registration for a convention, and I noticed that one of the registrants was Kevin Wolfe, I'd ask other people with con management experience for advice. In the absence of advice, off the cuff, I'd propose this response: a communication along...

One example is setting up advantage for a rogue's sneak attack. Besides the Help action, possibly from a wizard's (or warlock's) familiar, there's also Guiding Bolt, from the Cleric spell list (also an option for Divine Soul sorcerers from XGE). Of course, if Guiding Bolt misses, then this plan...

So to speak. If I came across some people who were drugged unconscious and covered in feces, and somehow it was up to me to take care of them, then I'd probably remove their clothes and use a spray hose to wash them clean. I would not handcuff them. Handcuffs indicate coercion or worse. I would...

I watched a bit of it. What I saw did not impress me. From the start, he refers to the PCs, the adventuring party, as "the lads". A bunch of lads, drunk, at 1AM, outside a kebab shop, trying to come up with the money for a snack... that's an important scene in an adventure story? Did he assume...

I was careful not to completely rule out the possibility! As an undergrad, I volunteered as a subject in several Psychology and Cognitive Science experiments, for pocket money, the advancement of Science, and the chance of an experiment going horribly awry, causing an origin story. I also spent...

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate." - Roy Batty Here's the thing, though. I doubt that any of the players in that game at UK Expo had, in their previous experience, been...

There's more or less a spectrum with Care Bears on one end, and Watchmen towards the other end. The schedule or program of events lists games with blurbs which often indicate where each game falls on that scale. At a recent con I played "Fall of Magic"; at the beginning, the GM noted that player...

Whenever there's a thread which involves sexism, misogyny, or related topics, someone posts about how the hobby (and the related industry) are DOOMED if they follow the agenda of "could we please have less sexism, harassment, rape, and misogyny in TRPG". TRPG has been an established hobby for...

Yes. If I ever run "Sunless Citadel" or a similar module, I will take its descriptions as the Day One starting point, and do my best to advance from there. That might mean keeping track of a LOT of moving parts, so I'll look for ways to simplify and abstract. The first Monster Manual had a lair...

I don't know why they never do this, but ANY time the adventurers enter the dungeon, they are ALWAYS at their assigned post. When the adventurers enter room #11, they encounter three guards with bows strung. Room #11 is never empty, with the usual inhabitants out foraging.

Some early modules would fail this test: if you walk into the dungeon, then go away for a month, and return, do you find the bodies of orcs, kobolds, etc. who have all died of thirst or starvation?

If you run a gaming convention, or run a game store which hosts games, then you can ban those players. Otherwise, it's not your decision to make (or in the UK, your decision to take). I attended a convention recently. I imagine that much (most?) of its income came from registration fees, and I...

As long as anyone gives serious consideration to essays "In Defense Of Rape", as long as the voters of Missouri elect Congressional representatives who argue in terms of "legitimate rape" and "consensual rapes", as long as a college student's excellence as a competitive swimmer is a factor in...

Some people at UK Expo had unpleasant experience. Do you see this as an opportunity for promoting your agenda about what is and isn't politically correct? If you want to watch "Song of the South" in the privacy of your home, then go for it, have fun. If you wanna play F.A.T.A.L. and/or Custer's...