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Tengo sentimientos encontrados sobre Dungeons & Dragons, durante años no me gustó, luego hace dos años, casi al día, leí los PHB y DMG de 5e y… tuve opiniones al respecto. Sentí que el juego, tal como lo había visto jugado, en realidad no era una buena representación de 5e, que nadie estaba leyendo los libros. Era el comienzo de la pandemia, y mi pareja, que es fanática, quería jugar a D&D con sus amigos de internet, así que me aguanté y comencé a masterear 5e. En junio esa campaña cumplirá 24 meses y aun continua.

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I have mixed feelings about Dungeons & Dragons, for years I didn’t liked it, then two years ago, almost to the day, I read 5e’s PHB and DMG and I… had opinions about it. I felt the game, as I had seen it played, was not actually a good representation of 5e, that nobody was actually reading the books. It was the start of the pandemic, and my partner, who is a fan, wanted to play D&D with her online friends, so I bit the bullet and I began running 5e. In June that campaign will be 24 months and going.

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Hace unas semanas me desperté pensando en Matando Cabos y me di cuenta de que sería divertidísimo jugarlo en Fiasco. Así que ese mismo fin de semana escribí un Playset para Fiasco Classic: Busca Un Problema. Un playset inspirado por las comedias negras de los 2000s como Matando Cabos, Nicotina y Rudo y Cursi.

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A few weeks ago I woke up thinking about Matando Cabos, a very good comedy film, and I realized it’d be very fun to play something similar using Fiasco. So that very weekend I sat down and wrote a playset Fiasco Classic: Busca un Problema. A playset inspired by 2000s Mexican comedies, specially dark ones, like Matando Cabos, Nicotina and Rudo y Cursi.

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Dungeons! … can become a boring railroad, but they don’t have to. Personally whenever I think of dungeons I don’t actually think of TTRPGs, I think of The Legend of Zelda. Stone Tower, Water Temple, Fortress of Winds, Tower of the Gods… the list goes on. Is there a secret to a Zelda dungeon? Can we reverse engineer a Zelda style dungeon into our TTRPGs?

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Zelda Dungeons are the gold standard to me. In a previous post I showed you how to design a dungeon in the style of those games. Here’s some advice on how to run that dungeon!

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I’m running a Wildemount campaign and this is the encounter I ran in our last session. It was 100% improvised at the time, but I liked it and I decided to write it down as a proper encounter, so here it is! Normal[?] content will resume next time :3

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The Golden Rule of TTRPGs is a variation of: these rules are just recommendations you are the final arbiter of what your game actually needs and you should feel free to ignore or modify these rules as required. It is very good advice, so why do I have conflicting feelings towards it? Today I argue with myself and get nowhere except a bit enlightened.

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In 1960 Steve Lacy wrote down advice given to him by the ever great Thelonious Monk. This list, entitled “T. Monk’s Advice (1960)” has come down amongst jazz players ever since. Jazz is an improvised form of music, but improvised does not mean “random”, improvisation comes from an agreed framework… very much like we improvise the RPGs we play. We agree on a framework, game rules, and we begin playing from there.

Today we apply T. Monk’s Advice to RPGs.

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¿Qué tan a menudo en una sesión de D&D tiras dados? Hay gente que tira para todo y hay gente que preferiría nunca tirar. Pero ¿hay un número al qué apuntar de con qué frecuencia tirar?

Si pensamos que tirar un éxito como algo positivo para los PCs ¿Cuantas tiradas pueden esperar hacer antes de tener éxito? Si alguna vez has conocido a alguien a quien no le gusta tirar, porque podrían fallar ¿has considerado qué realmente deberían tirar más en vez de menos?

Hoy vamos a hablar de estadísticas, y dar muchas opiniones sobre cómo funciona tirar dados en Dungeons & Dragons.

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