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The distinction I'm making is between playing a game where I play a writer, and playing a game where I play a character. These are distinct methods of play, with different kinds of fun in them. When I play D&D, I want to play a character - for me, ROLE PLAYING suggests that element of it, and...

Sure. And nonmagical butt-whooping is currently supported and could be supported further.

Being a protagonist isn't something that exists in reality, so yes, being fictional is inherently beyond natural. I guess it's kind of an open question if "natural" is the kind of thing we want to work towards. I'm a fan of diegetic explanations for remarkable abilities. "Being a protagonist"...

Roll 1d6 for my response. I like them. I like them quite a bit. I think some of the best moments of any game I've played have come about because of random rolls. I believe significant randomness is inherent to the enjoyment of TTRPGs in general because it increases tension and produces...

Maybe she doesn't think that the problem has been solved by Fate at all, actually? Like, just because you like a mechanic, doesn't mean everyone else has to like it.

Everything is a remix. Creativity is recycling. There is nothing truly new under the sun. IP is a prison holding back the creativity of generations. Etc.

I'm generally on board with the idea that we could add some subclasses for things like this. There's parallels that get close to these ideas, but sometimes it's just nice noting it on your character sheet and making it your schtick and that's all well and good. But, I don't think the Fighter or...

I think skills are barking up the wrong tree. Skills in D&D aren't really load-bearing weights for defining archetypal abilities, they're a specialized group of ability checks, and I don't think they need to be inflated in importance. We have a method for defining archetypal abilities, and that...

Oooh! I want this! Or, more specifically, I want martial characters to be able to do things like this. I have zero issue with a "warrior of the grave" who can speak with the dead or a "knight of fate" who can see the future. If our concept of Fighter is limited to "hit things good," then our...

One of the weirdest things to me in D&D is this kind of cultural bias against having martial characters (especially fighters and rogues) be inherently magical, in the sense that they have clearly supernatural powers that are clearly not of the common world. Like, I can't give my Fighter healing...

My setting at the moment is explicitly Christian, though it's borked and cursed, so that doesn't really matter to the daily lives of the people very much. Cleric spells don't really come from the Literal Christian God as much as they come from the holy objects the priests use, which are more...

It's like I always tell The Ladies: Finishing is overrated. I really like the WotC anthologies. Radiant Citadel was a very good and very fun. And I think one of the big mistakes of the setting books for Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dragonlance was in doing One Big Adventure instead of like a...

Also the Fighter, but y'all ain't ready for that realness. ;) Look, every class is optional. You only need as many classes as you want to need. IMO, the sorcerer is fine as the "inborn magic" character (vs. the wizard as a more "studied magic" character). I like the vibe of "I got my magic...

My read is that "imbuing" is defined by the feat, and so that doesn't take a spell slot. "Cast" is where I'd rule the spell slot is spent. It's also a little wild that this lets you access any spell on your spell list. Not powerful, exactly, just...weird. "I'm Jeormy the Wizard, and I have...

Correlation isn't causation, of course, and it shouldn't be surprising that college success and good jobs go hand in hand with a lot of things OTHER than "intelligence." Not exactly. They were originally designed to identify if French schoolchildren needed academic help rather than to be sent...