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I think an issue with random tables and why they fell out of favor is how little thought was put into their execution. Early games had...

Radiance RPG is a steampunk love child of D&D 4e and 3e. Core rules PDF can be had for the price of free...

I think the higher number of weaker encounters may have been a product of the goal to make encounters short. Which was a direct response...

Well you need to understand what the constituent parts are doing to use them well but more fundamentally the text can't give you an...

Just to clarify, this isn’t about advocating for one edition over another, or claiming that any particular approach is superior. The...

I personally like some attrition, but I'd like it to be meaningful sooner rather than later. While there are other features that I don't...

That's fair, and I loved 3E while playing it: it ia the second to last edition I would choose to play today, though.

One of the biggest things is just getting to the point and reducing process overhead. Like how instead of the intricate resolution...

my only real exposure to 4e is here on Enworld, and honestly it sounds pretty great all around apart from a personal bugbear against...

Here are contemporary trends that I see in terms of modern approaches to TTRPG mechanics: Fiction First Gaming: this was something of a...

It depends on what the meaning needs to be. If your goal is for each combat to have "meaning" in terms of challenging the party....well...

What 4e tried to do was divide the "combat spells" and the "non-combat spells" into two different buckets. The combat spells were...

Minor point of order: 3E wasn't balanced the way 1E and 2E were, that's where the issue started.

Ehh, you might think so, but the people that hated 4e are a much smaller portion of 5e’s audience than people who never even played 4e...

A few things: What I've found as a player and GM in a game like Apocalypse World (or more trad games generally), is that changing...