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I think that here, and in subsequent posts, you have misunderstood @hawkeyefan. Hawkeyefan, in the post you quoted, was pointing out...

As I posted: In my experience, players use the numerical/mathematical information that their PCs' remaining hp give them all the time...

That in some cases or for certain areas, when things are uncertain, we look to the dice or other rules to guide us. The most basic...

What I say is that unconscious and dying or death saves represent the beginning of cascading system failure. "It's not like you exploded...

I look at it like Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indy gets punched, kicked, shot in the arm, thrown through a windshield, dragged underneath...

Low level D&D is by far the worst of both worlds. Your PC is so bad that everything is a valid option. And you hand that to a noon...

It appears you think that authorship is a zero-sum game; if the players get to do more, it means the GM gets less. That really, really...

For players, I like metacurrency that gives players storytelling levers that go beyond their character actions, because they are as...

But this isn't about history, it's about corporate economics. Which is normally very risk-averse and prefers slow, predictable growth to...

4e is a good game. I don't want to get into the pros and cons of 4e, or 5e for that matter, because I think it's besides the point. The...

Nah, I disagree. Other games do D&D better than D&D.

The last time WotC substantially changed some D&D mechanics was 4e. That worked out well for Paizo. How did it work out for WotC...

Either you're fretting about the names of things or you don't know how easy it is to make (and publish) an exact replica of a yuan-ti or...

If you write Baldur's Gate into your Pathfinder or GURPS or whatever game, no one is going to call the cops on you. You can even call...

This is exactly the disaster that WotC is trying to avoid at all costs. I don't think you can make reasonable predictions while...