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Oh, absolutely. And VTTs alllow access ot the game for people who can't get to a F2F game for whatever reason as well. I understand that; I've been running a second game online for my kid and his friends through Roll20 because they all live 3,000 ish miles from me. I'm not disparaging VTTs at...

I initially voted "probably not" but quickly changed my vote to "never." I can see a case, distasteful as it may be, for a small independent designer using AI either to create art or guide their writing. But I've also seen the pushback against folks doing that, and in one specific case of which...

My preference has always been, and seems it always will be, face to face play in perosn. There some real advantages to VTTs, such as the fog of war, but all in all I think nothing can replace the camaraderie that develops playing in person. Maybe I'm just old. I ran the first session of a new...

Dragging pirate corpses though caves.

Hmm. Despite the thread title, there's no "I don't multiclass" option in the poll.

Sweet! I remember when the Shackled City campaign started back in Dungeon Magazine. My group abandoned the adventure(s) pretty quickly but we used Cauldron as a home base for years.

Was coming here to say this. Nothing beats the experience of my high school years in the mid 90s for me here: the best friends I ever had, playing D&D for hours and hours and hours across 3-4 different campaigns per week, and just letting our imaginations run wild.

Upstream someone mentioned Glen Cook for the Black Company, and I'd like to add his Garrett Files to the list. Pular Singe, Tinnie Tate, Deal Relway, Morley Dotes, Saucerhead Tharpe, Westman Block, Belinda Contague, Harvester Temisk, the Dead Man, Marengo North English, Glory Mooncalled, The...

No game; player couldn't make it. :cry:

A setting I've been developing for a while now is based on Mesopotamia and the surrounding area ca. 2000 BCE. As a student of architectural and urban development history, this culture and period has long been a point of facination for me.

I find boxed text to be invaluable, but so, so, much of it is just WAY too long and often rather obtuse. I tend to make a joke of it when I'm runing games. I remember reading a suggestion somewhere that boxed text shouldn't be more than two sentences, and should focus on what a character can...

Hear, hear. I remember seeing this ad in a Dragon Magazine and feeling it in my soul.

Basic: Level advancement that wasn't just based on combat. I realize the systeme was more specific than that, XP for treasure and all, but I think the real value is just conceptually decoupling (or pre-coupling?) level advancement from beating up monsters. 2e: Kits. While clunky in application...

In my campaigns I keep magic items, especially magic weapons, extremely rare, to the tune of there being only one of any named weapon - it's not a flame tongue, it's the Flame Tongue. Like many here have said, there's never such a thing as "just" a +1 sword. I also like to just play ball with...

As someone gearing up to launch their first Kickstarter campaign, I'm seriously worried. I have manufacturing quotes (just books, as in a softcover saddle stitch module, thankfully) that the whole thing is built around and I worry those quotes won't still be good by the time I actually need to...

Drawing off a couple of upstream ideas: it would be cool to have the capital city be expansive in height/depth, not necessarily in width, allowing for many different types of creatures to thrive in it. That plus the "lifeshaping" idea someone tossed out presents a very cool visual in my mind at...

I've never understood an adversarial mindset in TTRPGs. I've played under DMs who ran things that way, but it was never really my thing. I've always been upfront about this, and luckily I've never in over 30 years had an issue with a player (in that regard anyway). I work with my groups to make...

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