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Not really. I mean if you provide a world map or at least a big region and then detail out everything about the peoples and nations that live there there mechanics are no big deal. I use old world stuff with different rules sets all the time. I could use GURPs with Greyhawk for example. To...

I appreciate what you like as it is what I like too. I don't tend to dig too deep into who is making a product so I'd use ACK especially if I already paid for it. I might not buy more if the person is especially outspoken but I tend to pay for product not philosophy. I am actually working on...

Yep. Though I'm sure with buses arriving at different times the fact that food was present was likely not a requirement for a game to be going. I attended high school from fall of 82 until spring of 86.

I wonder if you wandered into 100 high schools across the country during breakfast how many would have games of D&D going on at that moment? I suspect in the early to mid 80's it would have been 100 out of 100. I think if you just count "games played" as a metric that 1e D&D is still king...

When I said sales I meant sales of the core game. The three basic books. Pathfinder was ahead of 4e for sure at some point during 4e and prior to 5e. I am aware 5e did very very well. I did not dispute that at all.

Do you have a place that verifies what you are saying? I definitely did not think 4e outsold 3e/3.5e. Pathfinder rose during the 4e time and actually went ahead in sales for a while. There is a reason there was such a strong kneejerk reaction. Now that might have just been bad feedback but...

I've embraced the Gygaxian truth. He knew there was nothing stopping gamers from just creating their own game. So I can take an existing game and just hack it till it's good. That means I don't start with 5e though. It means I start with a game like Castles and Crusades.

Making all game races neutral. So no evil orcs etc... The alignment was never an absolute restriction. Drizz't could exist while still saying Drow are generally evil. Many of the designers are super left wing and they got it in their heads that black people thought they were orcs or...

I think including beauty is a bad idea. I do though think beauty can help but that help is embodied in the Charisma. So if you want to say YOU are charismatic BECAUSE of your beauty then that would be okay but other people may be Charismatic for other reasons.

I never adopted 5e and disliked 4e. I really haven't liked WOTC or it's approach to gaming since the 3e era (even 3.5e was a rip off). So I have little intention of picking up 5.5e. The new style of D&D just isn't the sort of game I'm looking for when I roleplay. They didn't address some key...

So the gist of it is.... Because in the past some humans were falsely accused of being savage and evil, we cannot now have savage and evil make believe races in a roleplaying game. First I will say that the past should never dictate what you can or cannot do today. It's either inherently right...

The system uses plot coupon style mechanics where you trade back and forth meta tokens to enable some things to happen. That turns me away right off. I think it is a very streamlined system but again I didn't play past the first Numenera because I didn't like the plot coupons.

What is funny to me is that it is my fighter players that hated 4e the most. It wasn't the wizards trying to keep the fighters down. For my flavor of game, it is the people who play those classes that are martials that object.

That might, maybe, work for encounter "powers" though mapping powers to stamina still seems like a big fail to me in many cases. It doesn't work for daily powers though.

Yes but these options often look like spells to me. They have limits on usage without any explanation in fiction. 5e's second wind for example and 4e's daily and encounter martial maneuvers. So when you use up some resource that without a magical explanation doesn't exist, it doesn't sit...

My primary point is that on this issue there isn't that much room for compromise. What one side wants the other hates. So it's divisive. That was the point. And when you change a game that is one way into a game that is the other way, you are "forcing" out those who consider the changes...

All Messiahs based upon the Christian one would be avatars. NOT all avatars would be Messiahs.

That is true but is that a point? My point was that people can react badly and I gave my example. The outcome was bad. What does 3e putting them back in matter when it comes to the point I made?

True but as GM, I don't want a lot of debates about that history. If it is my unique world there is no argument. I know history pretty well by most people's standard but I have friends who are like me and also know history well. I don't want the game to devolve into a debate about the real...

I think roleplaying games are so wide open in ways they could be played that it's impossible for one game to suit all styles. WotC wants to maximize profit so they will do what they can to leverage their name and provide something they believe is in the sweet spot of gaming. Sometimes they...