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D&D 5e: Investigation Encounters

9 Dec, 2014  in 5e DnD / design ideas / Pelgrane Press / skill challenges  tagged investigation / skill challenge by Brandes Stoddard

There I was, thumbing through the 5e Player’s Handbook (as one does), when I came a suggestion that non-criminal members of the Rogue class include investigators. Well, I like a good procedural mystery as much as anyone, so pondered how you’d play an investigator through the Rogue class. The baseline Rogue abilities […]

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High-Level Plot Writing

25 Feb, 2014  in 3.x DnD / Mage / Pelgrane Press / questions from readers / setting ideas / Shadowrun / structure by Brandes Stoddard

Quite some time back, I talked about the problems of high-level gameplay in D&D and made an assertion that the concepts weren’t the problem, and that it was easy to scale up to higher fantasy and power on the story front. This assertion was not supported in the comments. It comes […]

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