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I think it’s because there’s a whole set of problem solving challenges that only work based on what items you have available, and it’s...

I love equipment, not the weight management or the Tetris game you play to make everything fit, but what you can do with it in a given...

Oh, there's elements of it. But, to be self-insert, the character still has to be recognizable as the author.

In fact, Howard makes some comments about Conan's lack of education. In many ways Conan is an anti-Howard. He's like, what if someone...

Conan isn't Howard. It seems pretty straightforward. He doesn't look like Howard or talk like Howard, he doesn't have Howard's name or...

Normally only arguments about metagaming can completely derail a thread this quickly. :-)

Conan was not a D&D character. Trying to use him to define what either a thief or a barbarian is works about as well as using Aragorn to...

IMO. The game has 3 primary subsystems. Attacks Spells Skills Not just thievery in general, but you need some way for a character to...

You could play a thief, and kill people. So there’s no need for a warrior, either.

I'll add that the claim "thievery is just skills, and that's different from class abilities" is a fallacy that I'm guessing traces back...

In general I would say it's because some people enjoy playing a sneaky character and it's a good idea to support popular archetypes...

The same reason real teams need specialists. In the worlds where "thieves" are a thing, need arises from the presence of theifly things...

In terms of heritage, a Dwarf born to Dwarf parents is going to have the same innate traits (size, age, speed, Darkvision) as any other...

What would work is to clearly define it as a macro to micro level. I am a dwarf (species). I grew up in Waterdeep (culture). I am a...

because human or dwarf, elf or orc, there's only going to be so much difference between how one kind of species and another lives as a...