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Managing a table of ten players is less like storytelling and more like air traffic control. In the heat of my weekly library sessions...

February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

My druid PC should threaten their enemies with a fate worse than death; body dysmorphia.

I was well over the target age for the HP books when they came out... but my kids weren't. So they made great books for me to read to...

Yeah, the teleporting fiends could be a nightmare. I remember a spell in 3e, not sure if it was in 2e, that locked down teleporting and...

Every other VTT has gotten rid of per player costs. It doesn't work. It's a terrible model.

No, but I'm sure he will once he sees this post :ROFLMAO:

Ah yes, people who believe in the right of expression and gender identity are famously intolerant.

It was annoying, which is fine for a one off villain fight where we beat him. It required a different tempo using less effective attack...

Combat can be resolved via "typical narration-based gameplay" the same as any other activity. And then it will be as real-time as any...

[...] That's pretty much how I feel and why I won't watch the series. I got through the first five novels, the the fifth already felt...

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Pretty much this. First 3 books are essentially books for kids aged 8-12 with heavy focus on school life. World building is in service...

Notably, 13th Age is the only D&D-adjacent I've run in a decade, and one of the only two others I'd consider was Shadow of the Weird...

I think that in systems where roll is dice pool based (Burning Wheel and its cousins, BitD and its cousins, Prince Valiant, etc) people...