Last year, I ran a short campaign of D&D 3rd edition to experiment with various mechanics I could use to get the players to avoid the “15-minute working day”, or the impulse to bail out of a dungeon to rest and regain limited resources (primarily caster spell slots, but also health) as soon as just a… Read More Thoughts on risk-and-reward mechanics in dungeon crawlers

One of the innovations of D&D 5th edition was the removal of the “gear treadmill” and “feat taxes”, or having to take certain feats and having to earn certain quality of loot at certain levels in order to keep pace with steadily increasing monster stats. It’s also possible to do this in 4th Edition, since… Read More Simplified modifiers for D&D 4e