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Alternatively, you can think a lot about how players can live and exist and live on these planes. Like, the plane of air, are you just falling constantly? Is there a terminal velocity, or are you just accelerating forever until you eventually break up and or get ejected into a neighboring...

for players, anyway. For the publisher, the need for power creep can be measured by the financial quarter.

Well that's explicitly false. The 2E book on the inner planes goes into a fair bit of detail about what can be found in the border and deep ethereal, including the creation and discovery of demiplanes within it. The border ethereal is also utilized a lot in how it interacts with the prime...

I think things existing only for lore purposes is fine, personally. Not everything has to be explicitly accessible as long as it has either enough written about to inspire potential adventures or, conversely, be open and empty enough for DMs to fill with their own designs. That said, there...

I think 3E's prestige class was a good idea that went wrong. In the original core, it was more presented as a world building tool for DMs. Create a prestige class to represent something special in your world, and then present it to the players at some point in the campaign as an optional path...

This reasoning strikes me as odd because, for the most part, the changes you're rejecting are just pulling the class closer to how it was before WotC's buffs, back when the class was still one of the most powerful and played classes in the game. It didn't suck to play back then; you just had to...

Oh sure, I have no confidence that WotC is willing to make changes that I would personally be in favor of. For evidence, look at what they decided to do for the 50th anniversary of the game. A more forward thinking publisher would see this as a fantastic opportunity to market major changes...

Honestly? 6E. I don't have a comprehensive list of what I'd like to see, but a few things to throw out there as possibilities: More precise language used in the rules. "Rulings, not rules" is a nice idea, but where you have rules, they should be easily spotted and understood. A tag system...

I voted "alright" because, at least for a while, Rifts really was the ultimate "kitchen sink" sci-fi RPG. I do find it amusing that Palladium had enough self-awareness to realize how much of a mess the MegaDamage system made the game (see: Rifter 9 1/2), but still wasn't willing to do the...

18 cap No ASIs B/X era bonus scaling Magic and class features to break the cap temporarily, but only through consumables (e.g. potions) or recharge on a long rest. Personally, I'd also go with something resembling the Epic 6 variant of 3.5, though that would be a lot more work for 5E without...

I prefer to take the word "alignment" more literally and treat it closer to its fantasy roots where good and evil (or law and chaos if we're going Moorcockian on the topic) are cosmic extremes that mortals can be (but rarely are) aligned with. I would even say (in my own campaigns) that this is...

Yeah, I don't see it that way either. I'm just saying that if moving away from race based stereotyping is the goal, moving toward culture based stereotyping surely isn't the solution. Though I've honestly started leaning the other way and looking toward simplification (OSE being one of my more...

The issue here, if you want to call it such, is that this doesn't actually "solve" anything. If we're just talking about different ways to distribute mechanics in a game absent any further context, then it works fine, but so does attaching the same mechanics to race/species/ancestry/etc. At...

It hasn't been. It essentially means "below." "Substandard" is a synonym for inferior, but it literally means "below standard." In most cases, the prefix is merely descriptive, not judgmental or indicative of quality. Anyone who disagrees, I challenge them to pit a marine against a submarine...

I just got my copy of the fixed version of the book, and with perfect timing! My girlfriend is wanting to practice DMing, so we're going to do some 1-on-1 sessions, so I figured we'd try out material from your book at the same time.

Though it was a little later, Planescape: Torment had Fall-From-Grace, a lawful neutral succubus who had a "brothel" for fulfilling intellectual desire, as a main companion character. There was also the fact that free will in outer planes beings is implied by the example of fallen celestials...

Honestly, I'm just sticking to the "it's lazy game design to remove options and then tell people to just describe your character differently instead" option. I don't think social justice or discrimination really plays into it because, as we've seen in this very thread, you can make arguments...

I mean, one could argue that taking away options is technically game design. It's how OSR games are designed, at least in part. The difference is that those games have a firm, gameplay centric goal in taking those steps. So many of WotC's decisions feel more like they're coming from a desire...

What is WotC's job as a game designer if not to design how the game is to be played? Give a quick "alternative rule" sidebar if they wish, but "just describe your character however you want" isn't game design when they had rules that interacted with the game mechanically for decades previous.

Why are you trying to frame the latter as something that gaming groups are finally able to do thanks to WotC's Revelation? In AD&D, I once had a Saiyan character that fused with a human-turned-half dragon after being merged with parts of his dragon scale armor during a resurrection attempt by...