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Its a mess for nobody, everyone knew what 5.5 meant, and now Wizards has just made the logical acknowledgment of what everyone else has...

Absolutely. A thing i have consudered in my own work is having a set of iconic characters, and giving 1-3 sentence descriptions of...

I don't think linear systems are any more prone to over-relying on random chance than non-linear ones - if you're using a random...

Incidentally and just my opinion of course, but for me, trying to model the ends of the bell curve as described here, off the cuff, is...

First, let me put my cards on the table as a person who really like triangle and bell-curve distributions. In my opinion, it’s not...

I don't think you're wrong per se, but I do think the degree to which its true varies heavily based on both the end user and the...

Riffing off of what @Scott Christian wrote above, some thoughts (that stray from "core mechanics"): First, I strongly believe that...

I'm just happy I moved to Level Up before the OGL Debacle, and also that A5e is based on 5.0 rather than 5.5.

I think focusing on the OGL is too small of a view. Yes, it was a contentious issue, but it was only one piece in a string of...

Ah, thought of an all-encompassing type of geek media I'll never get into - collectible card games. I have no desire to play them, no...

For Poll purposes, I chose 6, but that's more like the place beyond which the complexity really needs some justification, or it starts...

I went with an 8 if 5E is a 6. My goto fantasy is still PF1, but I also stand by Traveller, which is a deal simpler. I can appreciate...

FWIW, I chose 6, where I put 5E and SWADE and similar games. Too much more complexity than those games and I get a little lots in the...

4E removed all social abilities from monsters and 5E barely added any back in. And 5E's also incredibly stingy about giving monsters...

I think 3.5’s "iterative attacks" where the 2nd attack of the round had -5 penalty, the 3rd had -10 and so on was unnecessarily...