Recent content by UngainlyTitan

Laying it all out at the beginning can work. A eye opener for me was one of the very early WoTC live plays, with either Penny Arcade or Rooster Teeth, I cannot remember but Chris Perkins arrived at the table and roll out this gianormous beautifully drawn chessex map.

There are lots of reasons to be in a dungeon, other than exploring every nook and cranny, the Fellowship went into Moria, mainly because they could not get over the mountains. Other than Gimli they had little interest in exploring the place. Dungeons can be useful places to stash a mguffin or a...

I have a lot of thought on this. In general, I am very much of the opinion that the character should carry much of the weight over the player. Unless the players and the DM want to play the other game. That game is not illegitimate, but I have seen, charismatic players pull off shenanigans that...

Not personally a fan, mostly be I am crap at puzzles

Is this a puzzle for the players or for the characters?

I was responding, initially to a remark about being turned around in a hospital or school and responded that being turned around or getting lost has little to do with maps and is a very different experience in real life compared to getting mapping wrong at the table. I never suggested that he...

You asked for opinions, I apologise for offering one that you do not like.

No, getting lost has very little to do with mapping, getting lost in real life in my experience is mostly do to either being unable to figure our ones current location or misremembering a turn. A map does not make one automatically unlost unless one can infer from some visual clue as to where...

How many times have you been mapping your progress along a school or hospital? Most times I have become lost, the cause is that I was distracted from remembering my journey or I was in terrain where it was difficult to establish where one was due to lack of distinct features to orient on. I...

So I added Modern, Wuxia and Mystery to my vote, now that we are allowed more as I would like them and think that the rules needed to support them would be useful additions to the core rules.

@Zardnaar, @Maxperson, this is a pointless argument because at the heart of the nature of rpgs in general and D&D is that both point of views are supported and valid. There is no correct way to build a world and if the people are writing the setting are doing their job it should be possible to...

I voted Urban Fantasy because I like Urban Fantasy and nothing really catches my attention in the other categories but that I would really like to see in new settings are to go back to the idea of modular extensions of the existing rules. The this is, I think that the current rules are pretty...

Not for a long time and not as far as I remember sales data. Roll 20, D&DBeyond and FantasyGrounds used to release usage information occasionally but not recently as far as I know.

There is never going to be a published setting so detailed that there is no stuff to make up or not have gaps where stuff needs to be made up. I believe I would not be very interested in one like that. Too much information is worse than too little. A setting book, is akin to a colouring book, it...

I am gonna tout Mike Shea's "Return of the Lazy DM" @SlyFlourish , got a website an all, tons of advice on low prep rpgs