Category: Gaming Advice

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Choice & Simplicity

In real life, I’m a big proponent of keeping things as simple as possible. Keeping the balance between too much and too little choice in gaming is tricky, but I think worth it. For example, I doubt I could run a multi-year using only the original D&D box set and conversely I wouldn’t even bother trying to run a Pathfinder campaign using any Paizo rules source. My head would explode.

Perhaps this quote above all others encapsulates my view on choice at my table:

Every thing should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

–Albert Einstein

With that in mind, check out these choice- and simplicity-based posts:

 

Shadowed Keep on the Borderland Retrospective

A couple of years ago, I wrote the Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands as a homage to the Moathouse from T1 The Village of Hommlet (perhaps a perfect low-level adventure). Before I started, I sat down and worked out what I wanted to achieve with the adventure and how I planned to achieve it. These four posts layout my evil scheme:

Encumbrance

Everyone who plays D&D and Pathfinder loves encumbrance…While that might not be completely true, I’m a big fan of encumbrance (within reason). I love resource management and a part of resource management is managing encumbrance. (As a player said to me the other day, “Why can’t I carry 200 arrows?”) In any event, here are some of my thoughts about encumbrance:

Pathfinder: The Slow Advancement Track

I’m on record as saying I love the Slow advancement track for Pathfinder. I was recently asked for my advice on how to convert an adventure path to the slow advancement track. While I ponder that, I thought you might be interested in these slow advancement track resources: