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As it happens, I shared a story about this sort of thing in depth a year and a half ago. My wife passed in the summer of 2021. She'd been playing in two D&D games since her cancer came back in the spring of 2019. When she passed, the "kids" game - players were my wife, our son, one of my wife's...

Gotta say, this looks pretty cool. Might be a good way to get some friends who aren't into D&D into RPGs.

This is simply false. The SRD is a tool for developers who are creating third-party content. I mean, you do you, but I find having to navigate through pictures, blog posts, and other content to get to a recipe to be infuriating. I thus cannot find the words to express my disagreement with the...

Poor Anthony..

I'd prefer text formatting, such as bolding or underlining, over all the First Letter Caps, such as blinded instead of "the Blinded Condition", but as someone who writes and revises rules as part of their job, I'm overall pleased with the change. Maybe the PHB at least could have had fewer...

I read @Celebrim's statement on "fudging" with respect to PbtA-style games as referring to when a player character makes a Move and the result of the die roll requires the GM/facilitator to make some kind of Move in response, where what that looks like within the fiction are largely within the...

Some beautiful work on this thread!

I was planning on basically saying this exact thing, more or less. I would add that for a more tightly-focused game, it's well within the DM/GM's purview to state "this campaign requires a balanced party composition of synergistic specialists" or something to that effect. Either way, it seems...

I definitely enjoy both, though I would like to play more frequently in person.

I would consider "level drain" as it is classically implemented to be extremely un-fun and will unequivocally refuse to play in a system that uses it. If the next time I'm DMing for my playgroup, they want me to run an OSR game (I have offered to run Dolmenwood), I will probably propose an...

Water as a "recording medium" might also be a reference to the idea of "memory of water", which comes up in Frozen 2, for instance. I don't know what, it any, folkloric basis the idea has, but it is part and parcel, if memory serves, of the sympathetic-magic-turned-pseudoscience of homeopathy...

Strong foundational DM/GM skills - that is to say, facilitating a game session that you and your players all came away from having had an engaging and enjoyable gameplay experience - are undoubtedly the most important thing any DM/GM can posssess. Each of the following DMs will run better games...

I've read Adam Tooze's "The Wages of Destruction" cover to cover, for fun! So, like, high-density text isn't too much for me. The 2014 DMG is so sloppy, though, that I've yet to read it cover to cover. I use it as a reference but the layout and organisation is sufficiently irksome that I try not...

Rather than try to change the boundary, what if you just introduced some light shading or cross-hatch for the water?

An update: I've got a prototype "module" for combat testing ready to go. All I need is to finish up some pregen characters and battle maps, and it'll be ready for testing. I think I'll put the playtest version up on itch.io for starters, set up a discord server for chat/feedback, and go from there.

Maybe it's cause I'm in my 40s, but put me down for greatly favouring either OSE/Dolmenwood or 4e-style layouts (in the pre-Essentials books; the layout in Essentials books is mostly subpar IMO) over either the 2014!5e "layout doesn't matter" style or the Vast Grimm artpunk style. I'd rather...

I mean, the text of legendary resistance is, "If the <monster> fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead." If you narrate the result via game mechanics, such as, "<the monster> succeeds on its saving throw" despite a bad roll... I don't really see the problem here? It lines up with...

I'm rather fond of, if not hard scripting, then at least soft scripting, which 4e also possesses to some extent through the way monsters use up encounter or recharge powers, especially in conjunction with monster roles. Without having to overburden the DM with "what is this monster going to do...

I do wonder if there is a creative impulse at work: even if you arrive at reinvent a solution someone else has already come up with, there is something to be said for having worked it out "from first principles" yourself - if, that is, you're even aware of what other games or other designers...

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