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[AnotherGuy]

The starting points for 5e's point buy are too high.

EDIT: I prefer @Dausuul's approach in post #64

 

[MGibster]

Note that it super strongly implies that it can be used for almost any adventurous settting in the AD&D DMG, and again in the AD&D2 DMG, and the d20 open licenses were specifically to make it ... not quite GURPS-like universal, but more like 80's Hero & BRP lines, and almost all Palladium games: adapted cores using a common ruleset.

As much as I disliked the d20 glut, there were some gems in there including Spycraft, d20 Call of Cthulhu, Mutants & Masterminds, etc., etc., but d20 wasn't the same as D&D. If you purchased D&D 3.5 with the intention of using it to run a campaign set in Randland (Wheel of Time), a low magic sword & sandles type setting, or an Arthurian romance akin to Pendragon, then the system will actively fight against you. You can rip out the rules and adapt them, as they did (poorly) with Wheel of Time, but at that point it's no longer D&D. But these days, I see people who want this option and that option in D&D, and I just don't think the game can be all things to all people. Which isn't a dig at D&D, most games cannot be all things to all people.

Real Controversial: Palladium has much better worldbuilding efforts for each major setting than any official D&D setting.

I'm not sure I can entirely disagree here. It's been a long, long time since I played anything by Palladium, but their settings were pretty good.

 

[MGibster]

I don't know, Basic Roleplaying does pretty good without it.

But then it's not really CoC anymore, is it?

 

[Dausuul]

D&D would be much better if ability scores were abolished wholesale. Fold everything into a single proficiency bonus where you either have it on a given roll, or don't. Skills, saves, attack rolls; any time you pick up a d20, all you need to know is whether you're proficient and whether you have advantage or disadvantage.

(Also, go back to Fort/Ref/Will saves.)

 

[Autumnal]

RPG books are too long and too big and too verbose. Slim concise materials make for better gaming. As it is,books are made for reading because everyone knows but won't admit people aren't actually going to use the thing at the table.

Also they should be digest-sized. Art books can be any size, but manuals for frequent reference are too big at their usual dimensions. I only now realize this could be added to an “OD&D did it right” list.

One that OD&D could not have gotten right is that every game book should have an epub version with a layout that works in cell phones, along with whatever versions it has.

 

[Krachek]

In a RPG any challenge succeed by the players is fake.

 

[dragoner]

Games should focus on either ranged combat, or melee, because if they try to both, they will only be mediocre or do neither well.

 

[billd91]

Gamers are terrible at analyzing and designing role playing games, they're only good at loudly expressing terrible opinions.

 

[Dioltach]

D&D works best if it's about chucking dice, having fun with friends and taking neither the game nor yourself too seriously.

 

[Celebrim]

This seems to be a very lukewarm take. If the Mandolorian had ended after the first season, it would have been a stone-cold classic.

Not in the slightest. I'm suggesting that only the first three episodes of season 1 are good, and that by the end of the first season the show is already hot garbage.