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This will take more time to digest than I have right now, but I like the basic ideas. Ultimately, if ti works in play for you then it probably will for others, too. I think there's better ways to present and organize things, but again I can't get into the weeds about it right now.

Night of 1s and 20s.

Trying to whittle down a Cortex Prime variant for sword & sorcery that will be easy to run and teach/introduce to my group. (Before anyone suggests Cortex Prime S&S rules that can be found on the internet, I'm confident I have properly scoured the internet and found them all - unless there's...

The role plays the playing role in the role-playing game.

Very interesting, and thanks for the thread. I don't know Daggerheart yet, but none of these is how I would define a narrative game. For me, a narrative game is one whose mechanics focus on drama. The technical details of skills, powers, spells, punching, stabbing, etc. might have some bearing...

Four arms is not enough.

Like others, I could not make it through the first book, but liked a lot of the ideas. I tried watching the Chinese adaptation, and although it seems to have a very nice budget I did not find it engaging. We watched the first 2-3 episodes of the Netflix adaptation, and...I doubt we'll watch...

So if you buy nothing, probably the 2024 basics and nothing else. Makes sense.

From series 1-6, 97 of the 253 episodes are partially or completely missing. Audio for most or all of those exists, and then there are stills and snipets of video. Most of that is due to A/V nerds at the time, recording what they could from live tv. Those stills are often photos taken by a...

Alternating between About Time 1 and About Time 2 - these are in-depth, story arc by story arc analyses of Doctor Who. Volume 1 covers series 1-3 (1963-1966), and 2 covers 4-6 (1966-1969). I'm currently watching series 4 - I'm committed to making my way through from the very beginning. God help...

One thing I'm really curious about - that will affect whether my table adopts 2024 D&D - is what versions of the D&D 5E rules will DDB make available to basic-level memberships. 2014 and 2024, or just 2024?

Maybe we need a poll about who does and doesn't, because I really dislike being on class-progression autopilot after 3rd level.

"Should have" is stronger than I'd like to prescribe, but evolutions that I would have liked to see include: 1. Get rid of the confusing, multiple uses and meanings of "levels". If you're going to keep 20 levels, distribute the 9 levels of spells into 20. You get 5th level spells at 5th level...

Yes, please! This would do a lot for characters with mixed racial origins. In every race I've designed that has innate spellcasting, I come up with a 3-5 cantrips, 3-5 1st-level spells, and 3-5 2nd-level spells - all themed around what I understand that race to be like in general - and the...

I voted 3. I'm interested, but not excited.