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Despite hours spent scrolling through digital tools and PDFs, the nuances of the new system felt slippery, like trying to catch smoke...

GM burnout. Especially when something new and shiny is on the horizon.

I think it depends a little bit what you mean. There are quite a few lighter versions of 5E that have been doing the rounds that I’m...

From my vantage point, at least when I first saw it being used, it was a resource that the player spent, that the character had no...

My general take is that it depends on how the system uses them. They're a tool, and I'm more interested in how that tool is used in the...

I think that's a fair criticism of Discovery. Have you watched Strange New Worlds? It definitely puts the science fiction aspect in...

The ideal party composition can depend on more factors than just combat. The setting, the encounters, the types of monsters, the...

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed...

When you build strawmen, do you prefer plastic or paper straws?

All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

Scanning through it, I think there is some interesting stuff here to adapt to Shadowdark to build a "cozy" SD game about the village and...

Literally the focus of the fantastic Beyond the Wall and Other Stories, which is basically a modded 1E...

I'm using the 5e ecosystem with 2024 as the base rules with a dash of Black Flag, A5e and 2014 for exactly this campaign. They're...

Then swap out most those APs for Kingmaker which is a frontier building campaign. Much of the principles are the same. Problems come to...

Pretty much any edition of D&D can work - you just lean into the setting appropriate aspects like making more out of their 5e background...