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You know honestly I would like attribute variations better if they were simply larger and unsurmountable. A -2 penalty (which...

That is basically the origin of alignment in 1974 OD&D. You get a list of creature types under each alignment (Law, Neutrality, Chaos)...

One group's "better rules" is another group's "worse rules". Hence, do "no rules" when you can get away with it. "What's the correct...

IMO those are not better rules.

My theoretical preference is for the PC and NPC rules to work similarly ar at least very closely so. I however understand that this is...

I have been uncomfortable how D&D has portrayed some species for decades. Literally having evil versions of species you can recognise by...

Yeah, it seems to me a case of concept creep. There are a few areas of bioessentialism that are genuinely issues--primarily orcs, and...

No. But, to my mind, it's a natural outgrowth of PCs being "special backstory characters" and the fact that the PC building rules for...

I think it's a pretty core premise for modern-day D&D that PCs are not some representative sample drawn randomly from a generated pool...

For me, the important thing is that a game has a strong narrative reason for have different species. For the most part, D&D fails at...

I never used Tasha's. Moved to Level Up right after that book came out. It was for me the line-crpssing moment in terms of official product.

Except for the part that a lot of game design choices are all about the aesthetics of those choices. Game design isn't science or math -...

I think some of this comes down to RPGs doing a lot of abstraction for ease of play. Some people interpret those abstractions as...

I think there must be something more here. If culture was such a broad palette to work from, then what do we even need fantasy species...

That's a piece of it: the reality is - for LotR and D&D - it isn't about "Bioessentialism". It's about the gods: they created each races...