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Corridors have been doing your party favors nobody asked for. Take them away and retreat becomes a gamble, noise carries three rooms over, and your torches last forever. Here's when that trade pays.
How room spacing shapes dungeon pacing, exploration, and player decisions—and why layout should be a deliberate part of adventure design.
Why AI handles the first 80 percent of game development and stalls on engines, concurrency, and the feel of a game that only a human can verify.
How the BECMI Thief turned shared player ingenuity into one class's dice roll, and quietly traded D&D's player agency for character permissions.
I built an interactive KCD2 alchemy tool to manage recipes and reflect on how modern TTRPG design has diminished meaningful crafting and earned progression.
I developed a browser version of Asteroids, sharing my high score hopes while exploring TTRPG tools post-site conversion.
Reject the win-lose mindset and celebrate diverse TTRPG playstyles; curiosity over gatekeeping turns debate into discovery and keeps the hobby welcoming.
Reflecting on Tim Cain and Gary Gygax, this calls for empathetic, nuanced remembrance of D&D's creators over meme-fueled narratives.
5e 2024’s exception-heavy design can fuel rules debates; here’s how DMs and players can balance rulings, fun, and table expectations.
Classic modules show early editions centered on negotiation and player ingenuity, contrasting with later skill-driven, performative approaches.