The title is in all caps because it’s so important that people miss it, like standing next to an aircraft carrier, all you see is gray. After yet another thread on Facebook’s big 5e group, I found myself writing the…
Category: Game Design
I see a lot of sound and fury about railroading on various internet fora. Trouble is, I think almost all of it is bullshit.
A post on the Facebook “D&D DMs Only” group worries me. You can click to go over there and see it for yourself, but you might have to be a member. I dunno. Anyway, here’s the post: Your player has…
I see a lot of folks new to the Guild coming in with Big Ideas ™ about their worldbuilding project. Unfortunately, most of the time those Big Ideas are not appropriate for the Guild Before I dive too deeply into…
Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s unpack that, shall we?
It happens every couple of weeks, it seems. Someone posts somewhere lamenting about hit points in D&D and how they don’t make sense. An argument ensues about what hit points really mean. These arguments are almost always as poorly informed…