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To me this seems to exemplify the false assertion that all RPGs are designed with the same intent and all players want the same thing...

Reading some of the player-facing material (species, classes, etc.) in order to come up with a character concept for your character...

Crush PCs, see them driven before you, and witness the shredding of the character sheets. Oh, and TTRPGs are great fun.

Whereas Level Up's crunch deals with the three pillars of gameplay (combat, exploration, and social interaction) and a more extensive...

LaserLlama's is close to what I'd like.. Wildshape as an exploration ability, Combat power or Social power via subclasses. I just...

This is a good point. I do liked the definition of "crunchy" to be mainly about the number of rules subsystems involved, while...

True. I guess there are different types of complexity: level of math vs lists of abilities to choose from, frex. Automation helps for...

The official Google definition for Crunch in an RPG: In the context of role-playing games (RPGs), "crunch" refers to the mechanics and...

I think this is a feature. People that want complexity don't necessarily want the game to grind to a stop in the wake of that complexity.

Some of their other classes do as well; the Alternate Rogue and the Shaman both have limited versions of wildshape.

Are you sure that isn't a function of your players not bothering to learn their abilities?

A few years ago, I started prep work on a long-term project in my spare time: I wanted to gather information from across my library of...

Laser Llama and PF1 (Paizo and Legendary Games) both have the Shifter class, a more martial wildshaping class. Laser Llama's take on the...

In one of the two 2024 campaigns I am running, I have a player with a (at present) 8th level Druid. Other than once a twice when it was...

There ought to be Druid subclasses for 5e that focus on those two monster types. PF1 had the Treesinger Druid (which covered the Plant...