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I automatically dismiss any argument about lethality and "real world" weapons when it comes to D&D as nearly every D&D weapon is wildly...

You think someone cannot have passion about what they love enough to contribute to it, but instead must either have an axe to grind or...

IME, 95% of the time a player wants a gun in my fantasy games, going back decades and not specific to D&D, they want a ranged weapon and...

I don't usually include firearms in my D&D games, but that's for purely aesthetic and thematic reasons. If I do include them, players...

So.... What exactly is the difference between Cleric-or-Druid-zilla and Cleric-or-Druid-Goes-for-a-Walk? Because both of them seem to...

To me, there's a vast difference between a house system and a generic system. A house system is borne out of a setting first approach...

And I'm fine leaving that choice up to the devs. Being a generic system isn't an inherent property of a rule system; it's a choice made...

This is one of the reasons I'm nervous about the growth of D&D Beyond. We're already starting to see D&D Beyond exclusive products from...

Right, the less the system has to do with a particular genre or style, the more universal it is, I'd say. Whether or not there are...

To my mind, I would say a "generic/universal system" requires some choice of campaign/setting frame be made by the participants before...

I think the most important difference is that with an intentionally generic or universal game, people don't have to tease out the system...

What a deeply cynical view of the world, it saddens me to see such opinion.

Here’s what feat chains do to the character building process. You no longer can just read the feat list and think how X fits your...

Preselected feats you automatically get when you level, all of them presented on the same page of the same book is very much NOT the...