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I generally avoid making "crits" too big of a deal. I will use the rules for them if they exist, but I try not to extend it to skill rolls in 5E for example.

This is a question primarily from a player perspective. As a player, do you prefer to get XP from finding treasure? Killing monsters? "Overcoming obstacles"? Identifiable Milestones? GM Fiat? There is a lot of nuance, of course, so feel free to comment as well as choose multiple answers in the...

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Someone who can act?

RPG books are reference books, with functional illustrations like maps and tables. You don't want it to resize.

One thing I think we can do that would help is to examine what 16th level 5E PCs are capable of. Not so much to guard against those things, but to actually incorporate some of them and make them matter. I hate when high level adventures nerf characters of those levels just to "work."

Are there any high level adventures or other resources for ToV?

I like the idea of presenting the background lore just once, in the form of tables that map to "knowledge checks" (whatever that means in the game in question). You would have to be careful about making those too wordy, still. This is one place where handouts can be useful. Give the players the...

If you take D&D out of the picture, how do you think Demiplane compares to PDF in terms of market penetration?

Why are you shifting goalposts?

I have always wanted to build an adventure with pop out text boxes that you can either open or just hover over for as long as you need it. I am a land surveyor and civil engineer and one of the towns we work in has all their regulations in a website like this and I always thought it would be...

I don't think this is true at all. Labyrinth Lord was nowhere near as popular as OSRIC in the early days of the OSR. B/X became the thing more recently when newcomers to OSR realized they wanted the vibes without the wonky rules overhead. Even then it took a lot of experimentation before the...

Oh my. Okay, well, next time just say you aren't interested in discussing the ssubject.

I would be interested to know how you have come to that conclusion.

I think if WotC sold PDFs of 5E material it would easily outsell everything else on PDF combined. PDF is not the best possible digital format, but it has become the standard.

For no conceivable reason. I think that makes you an outlier.

For no conceivable reason. I think that makes you an outlier.

I am not sure why you think a new setting using the 5.5E rules would not also add new things to the game. Remember, the conceptual model here is Eberron.

If only there was another digital format that could be leveraged, one that revolutionized and democratized TTRPG creation and allowed folks to create, unbeholden to the needs of printers.

In general with 5E I aim for each level to take a number of sessions equal to the next level, except getting to 2nd (which is so trivial one wonders why it is there at all). Until 6th is anyway, at which point 5 or 6 decent sessions per level seems about right.