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DnD goes wild tends to make me think of a lich flashing the adventurers... As a shake up, rather than class specific, I'd like to see a...

Not to my mind. Encounter rolls determine the diagetic likelihood of having an encounter in a particular area. Makes sense for the...

Exactly. I don't want to think in terms of story when I play my PC. They're in the world, and all they know (and all I can fairly act on...

I don't think I follow this. At least in my experience, when playing AD&D with PCs of (say) 5th or higher level, then when the group...

I think I disagree. I suspect it's got much more to do with how variable the costs and impacts are between the group collective total of...

I do think this is the source of the scope problem; is the game about gambling and spinning up reactions to the results of that gambling...

Couldn’t you just follow those declarations up with ‘what is your character doing to perform that check’ before you allow them to roll...

Feels like this is fundamentally about skill design, not adventure design. You want the skills to point to abilities players want to use...

First off your rolling to often as most people who don’t play skill bases systems do. Per page 31 of the core rule book in the call out...

If there are readily available solutions that obviate the problem, then no, I don't understand throwing out the baby with the bathwater...

I also thought that "I don't understand, but I also do understand and disagree" to be an interesting position to take. Very....Taoist.

GURPS has a bunch of disadvantages you can take that require self control checks. If you . 3.0/3.5/PF1 had them for self control if...

would you still categorize a campaign as 'high magic' if there's a ton of magic but it's all low level stuff? if most NPCs are walking...

I almost wonder if we need more "floating" subclasses that follow a theme but can be used with any Class. Fighter-Ninja, Magic-Ninja...

ngl I am fine with reincarnate no longer turning you into things like beasts. That's just having to go make a new character with extra...