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I think game design is at least part art. Sure, having larger backlog of design to compare to might make designing now easier than back...

And that why modern art is considered universally better than the renaissance art and modern literature superior to Shakespeare. :unsure:

(ninja'd by @Crimson Longinus ) As good as real-life people are at renaming/reframing things so they can still talk down about the...

I'm not sure that if it is significantly better if racist tropes are applied to a culture rather than species. In fact, that's closer to...

If you are regularly playing Rolemaster, that sets some expectations for many of us as to what you bunch consider "unwieldly", though...

Honestly I'd prefer to keep it in D&D or at least a 5E derivative like Tales of the Valiant, if only because I don't have much interest...

I didn't care for minions, even if I did understand what they were going for. But it just made no sense in the fiction. Take Grr, the...

As you say, the statblock is a snapshot. But the effect of applying "roles" in 4e means that the snapshot changes based on who's...

Hey, now, full revocations no longer happen. Gatekeeping and all that. It will, however, mean some point deductions in the Evening Gown...

I'm afraid we need to revoke your nerd card...

i'm aware, but i've only seen the movie version of that scene, i could not slog my way through the books, i tried.

Species-based subclasses could work if you first universalize the “budget” for subclasses, which they tried but abandoned for 5.5.

This is a little tangential from D&D, but you could have a setup where every PC picks two options at character creation from the list of...

Or we get as close as we practically can to diegesis, and abstract what we have to for play. I do that, and somehow still manage to run...

Hot take. The players DO care. They just don't know that they care. In my experience those extra details from world-building make...