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I also have to say that as a player I prefer slow advancement. I want time to play my character and learn what my companions can do at each level. I joined an in-progress game last year and started at 8th level. The character is now 11th, nearly 12th based on XP awarded. But personally, I’d...

I chose fighting monsters, overcoming obstacles, and social encounters - but also included Treasure, though that depends on the specific style of game, while the other 3 are pretty universal to my preferences as a D&D player.

The highest in a game I played in from level 1 would probably be in 2E and that was maybe level 5. (I mostly DMed). This took about a year of weekly play (give or take) The highest level characters that started at level 1 in a game I ran were 11th level in a 3e game and this took 5 years of...

I can’t remember if it was Star Frontiers or TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes. The former was definitely the second I ran, but I may have played the latter before that. Either way it was within the same year.

I did that thing again, where I write out a response to a thread, but then just delete it before submitting.

I have and use that Ral Partha lizard man regularly. About half my collection ( it a smaller percentage all the time) are metal ral partha or 90s metal reaper. While differences in scale can bother me for bigger minis (a have a reaper fire giant I use as an adolescent among the wiz kid and...

Heck, you even get a subset of folk for whom the very notion of "building" a character is anathema - so we have everyone covered regardless of preference (for good or ill).

Blame XP: Blame the Author: 1087 Blame the Editor: 2360 Blame Both: 4347

Today was the 66th session of my Revenants of Saltmarsh campaign. Here are 10 things that happened during our 3-hour session (in no particular order): 1. The party decided to risk a forced march. 2. The party suffered an interrupted Long Rest after a "wandering monster" roll. 3. The paladin...

Looking back at my answers, they remain the same, and at about the same proportions!

Yeah, I think you're wrong.

I was gonna say the same. It is not that someone less well-read can't make a good point, it is that sometimes not being well-read enough in a field (like RPGs) without expressing the caveat of how informed you aren't, can come off as unearned arrogance when you make a clearly erroneous claim...

Pokerface was great! And we enjoy Elsbeth.

I haven’t picked up any of the Frameworks minis from WizKids because they seemed overpriced, and your post confirms it. Sorry you had to actually shell out to know it for certain.

Yes. I award XP at the end of each adventure or (or more rarely) significant portion of a longer adventure, and there is some downtime. They earn XP every session but I just keep track of it.

I was just looking at my records for my in-person gaming group and realized, I only awarded XP once in 2024 and so far only once in 2025 (with slim to no chance it will happen again before 2026).

Yeah. A great starter module. I haven’t run it since the early 90s. But plan to run it to open my next campaign

I have certainly used the phrase but at the moment I cannot remember a specific instance because it has been literal decades. That said, I have mixed feelings about it because on the one hand, ideally for my style of play I want us all to embody our character and see the world through their...

You're gonna have to work a lot harder to get me to block you. ;)

There's that one person (well, more than one) that just posts sooooo much that even if you block them, their absence makes reading/understanding threads a little screwy.