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To some it’s a bug, to others it’s a feature. In highly stressful situations, panic spreads like that.

Tag team attacks give two attack rolls, where the players can choose which one to go with for both attackers. They then add the damage...

In my experience, it's more that allowing enemies to retreat invariably leads to them alerting the entire dungeon/castle/whatever and...

One of the things that complicates this is a lot of games have really poor rules for handling attempts to flee. The net effect of that...

I have also created encounters where staying and fighting was simply not an option. For example, I had one where the party was trying to...

You might want to tell Matt Mercer he’s doing it wrong then?

Just watch any fight in Age of Umbra. It’s very clear that the GM has the spotlight after a player fails a roll or rolls with fear. And...

I believe the idea of the armour is the thresholds are soaking some damage, but when hp gets through, you can damage your armour a bit...

Lots of people talk about the speed or otherwise of combat versus 5e. For me personally I don’t care whether combat takes the same time...

On my agenda, but not anytime soon. Didin't like WFRP4 nor WFRP2, did like WFRP3 and WFRP1...

Gamer hobbies in general are now mainstream, so that will probably help reduce some of the attrition. Me and my boss (we are both in our...

I guess it depends what a person means by running an OSR game using DH. What you describe sounds very similar to how I do things...

Re: DaggerHeart and dungeon crawling, I think (based on a read, not played it yet) that this will be tricky. My experience of trying to...

They seem to be fairly strong on ‘you can’t help yourself with hope’ as a concept, and spending hope to create an aspect would be pretty...

Ok, ran the game for the first time. An incredibly positive experience for me personally and for pretty much everyone at the table (6...