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I have a few suggestions, OP, which I'll summarise as bullet points and then elaborate on. Sorry in advance if I'm duplicating any...

Apropos of complexity, I am not so sure that the pendulum, as it were, has swung away from complexity that much. Mid-to-high-complexity...

To my mind, money in an RPG is a tool to facilitate any or all three of: Score-keeping behaviour (numbers go up big! Yaaay!) Giving the...

ADHD is one of the -worst- named neurodevelopmental disorders there is or has ever been. Lemme list some of the actual problems ADHD is...

Just so I'm clear, are you complaining about spell saving throw DCs being missing? The saving throw DCs that you find in a big red text...

Dear Mr./Ms. Fisherman, I refuse to take your delicious-looking bait today.

Hit points are the worst game mechanic except for all the other mechanics that have been tried from time to time.

The logic of spell point progression is the base cost of 2 for a 1st-level spell, then a 1-point increase per spell level, except at...

This strikes me as an unproductive, reductive truism, in that it's true but unhelpful if we stop further analysis or discussion at this...

Spells such as create food and water still exist in Level Up!, and not only does the ranger class still exist in Level Up!, if anything...

First, I'm annoyed that I feel compelled to repeat myself here: an optional "logistics matter" rules module is contingent on D&D wanting...

I'm broadly of the view that D&D could stand to pick a lane on this kind of thing, which I would imagine means leaning into heroic...

What some OSR circles have (unfortunately IMO) taken to mean by skilled play is rather like a narrated-exploratory play loop, appealing...

"I used to be a medieval knight, like you; then I took an arrow to the knee."

I understand. The Lion King made us all feel ways we didn’t fully understand. Disney in general really seemed to want to make my...