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In classless, skill based systems, some character concepts have large skill overlap (police detective, sleazy paparazzi photographer and...

Oh, there's elements of it. But, to be self-insert, the character still has to be recognizable as the author.

TFT does have Jobs, and thief is a job, with talent and attribute requirements. Those jobs on the list include a bunch that correlate...

Mechanically the thief, rogue, assassin has been one of my favorite classes; removing them also removes my desire to play the game.

In general I would say it's because some people enjoy playing a sneaky character and it's a good idea to support popular archetypes...

You don't, but a dedicated thief is better at thieving than a fighter who just dabbles in thievery.

CO didn't get the instant uptake, and is still actively discussed on the DP discord. so, not quite dead in the water.

Actually, page description is not the "whole point" of the format. PDF's point was to make PostScript more robust, by including some...

HTML might be better for some people in actual play at the table, but PDF works great for reading and reference, which are the main...

It's always good to keep a stack of premade paper battlemats and a stack of encounter stats. If you build an encounter, getting the...

D&D 3.0. Party started in Cyclopedia, Wrath of the Immortals campaign. Switched to 3.0 when they turned on the MacGuffin. They are...

See, old school Space Opera largely is NOT Star Wars/Star Trek big battles kind of stuff. Sure, we get some in novels, but a lot of it...

Ha! it will probably outsell their estimates. Preorders early in a game's life are almost always lower sales than the market will...

They're classes in DH, too. The vloggers I'm seeing say that are also preachily pro-pathfinder or pro-D&D. They have a vested interest...

HTML mangles tables, often is unhappy with custom fonts (which are one of a bunch of ways to use custom symbols; the fonts can scale the...