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It shouldn't break anything. I think having a major class ability be an extra feat right out the gate sort of robs the class of a prime...

Okay, well that's almost true. What I'll come right out and say is that I didn't want any changes to anything that wasn't actually...

Yeah, hard disagree on everything there, because all the things you seem to have considered bugs in the 2014 version are to me either...

5.5 is a series of marginal or obvious improvements alongside numerous arbitrary changes for change's sake with no clear guiding design...

I voted No simply because I do not think 5.5 is an upgrade. At best, it is annoying in its small changes. At worst, it actively messed...

I prefer to start "big, sprawling campaigns" at level 1, because those early levels are interesting in their own ways, they go by...

This is gonna be a controversial take, but what if the problem isn't that the GM isn't interesting enough, bur rather it isn't the right...

As a one-man shop, year-by-year I slip over/under the "everyone else" line.

Its not logical but I like systems that are roll high and use dice that are not just d6. I like the bell curve of 2d10. Currently I am...

Reading through a published adventurer. I don’t know why, but I always find that to be such a chore. The worst is reading through keyed...

Wait...your kickstarter preview is already up, but now you're asking "What do you personally love most in the TTRPGs you’ve played or...

I hate juggling enemy and npc stat blocks, and most issues of game complexity for me are basically issues of whether the stat block is...

These accounts are really not mutually exclusive, at least once you make allowances for the sort of simplifications involved in...

The Polygon article itself said that when Perkins said “they lost the plot”, he was referring primarily to the obelisk storyline. What...

Seems like its an attempt at perpetuating the 'no no 5.5 is really just 5.0' party line.