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I often think that the reason that all those elven kingdoms are in the distant past was because elven societies tend to ossify in ways...

I remember making a character in a shortlived Eon campaign who was certain that humans' relative shortlivedness was a gift, not a curse...

Straight damage per hit isn't the only metric I'm measuring by. The tradeoffs could be the halfling being harder to hit, more mobile, or...

It's because that's not playing against the system. The personal challenge isn't "can I play a suboptimal halfling barbarian", but "how...

The fact that some differences exist does not imply adding more differences is not an issue.

That implies that PCs are special and should be treated differently in the rules from other members of their species; in effect,it is a...

To the best of my knowledge, Tolkien never actually wrote Brandobras' story. It's simply a myth that is briefly mentioned in LotR. We...

Except for the part that a lot of game design choices are all about the aesthetics of those choices. Game design isn't science or math -...

I think some of this comes down to RPGs doing a lot of abstraction for ease of play. Some people interpret those abstractions as...

For me, that leans a little too close into the "tyranny of fun" problem, where "fun" is equated to "being able to have/do what(ever) I...

In that case you know that the limit is not imposed by the world, so the act of playing against type loses its salience.

Not directly commenting on the biological determinism in RPGs, but in terms of mechanical limits: for a lot of us, working...

I'm wondering if he ever would have imagined Bullroarer Took as strong as the strongest part-ogre person* or whatever (not just as...

No, it's not. There are absolutely some ideas that can't be executed under a given framework of rules, and other ideas that can be...

I think there must be something more here. If culture was such a broad palette to work from, then what do we even need fantasy species...