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I panicked when I wrote my notes out, and their word count was 750. So I took a nice long break, and probably had the same rush you did. Anyway, I have a bad feeling I'll be dreaming about ornithopters and sacks of coffee. The latter is not out of the ordinary.

Formatting is going to be the death of me. Are we allowed to use interns?

A Convenient Prophecy Your ingredients are: McGuffin of Certain Doom Seaside Showdown Ornate Ornithopter Sack of Coffee Beans Mediocre Poet Eye of the Bee Holder Wind Tunnel Synopsis The heroes encounter a middle-aged engineer whose sole occupation is preventing a trapped demon from...

At first I thought, "well, yeah. Every group of PCs can just choose to give up a fight." But then I caught the "maintain narrative control" part, which is confusing. Do the PCs become the GM at that point? Do both sides need to agree on the final outcome? Or do the PCs get to make...

I'm in.

The sooner, the better. It would be nice to have the weekend to examine where things went horribly wrong 🤓

This is true. I know from experience. Also, "you can do 3 things" puts D&D's action economy to shame. But I have to wonder if "you can do 1 thing" would be more elegant.

How do those games put the decision in player-hands? What if the GM wants them to die . . . :devil: Not going to solve your TPK problem. I hear the "death spiral" calls coming . . . "Auto-stabilize and survive" sounds like a bit of a plot armor hazard. Auto-survival, by the way, might...

"Actionable resources?" "Narrative pillars of D&D?" The last is the best: "forward-thinking perspectives." Is that not the same thing as "innovation?" I hope a real person enjoys that gainful, cross-team supportive role in a franchise-focused, inclusive environment.

That's . . . pretty limited. Is there no story in Daggerheart? Definitely! I can't play D&D for long, because every time someone has to look up an ability in the book or do "nothing" in a round because he "missed," I find myself not wanting to attend the next session. Even if a game doesn't...

That's what a class is to me. A character class is a predetermined point-buy plan over levels of character advancement.* The process of predetermining is a game designer saying, "what character features are going to be fun and interesting to play," which is (should be) heavily influenced by...

Bards are terrible at avoiding bears/omnivores, even with the skill. It's because they're usually coated in sweet/flowery perfume, and refuse to wash in river-temperature water. This is why my party posts the bard on the longest night watch, to scare away bears before they get too close to our...

The variant/equivalent part eluded me, since there were no non-D&D poll choices. But that detail really waters down the poll, since the question becomes "what game are you playing, but really, what version of a D&D game are you playing?" There should be a final choice: indie/small publisher...

Isn't that Rivendell? I guess I could/should draw inspiration from recent Sedona visits.

"I don't think he knows about secondary games, Pip."

It might be perfect, but it looks a lot more complex than I would prefer. So my character might end up being low in skill points just because I was focusing on role-playing instead of system-mastering. For what it's worth, I took a stab at skill-points-through-usage with a Modos RPG module. I...

This also describes certain popular news programs. DM - Player. As long as neither side backs down, some poor character is going to get caught in the middle. Gods, I wish wizards were still this fragile.

Whoa. Good answer. Here, I was just thinking the cost of an inn stay was a stiff back in the morning and a chance at catching fleas.

Encounter: The Beorn's Annual Gourdgoyle Hunt Setup: While traveling through a foreign land in autumn, the PCs encounter signs of a special event. First, there are fanfares heard from far off. Then they spot, along the road, brown-and-yellow standards adorned with winged pumpkins. Finally...