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D&D Neutral, 3e/5e True Neutral, and 4e Unaligned aren't just sensible alignments... they're the alignments of the majority of humanity. AD&D True Neutral isn't any more implausible than any of the other eight personality disorders. Any question about what makes sense within that system begs...

Black and blue, smothered in extra-spicy mango chutney

Humans are almost always mechanically better, and I'll usually play them over standard demihumans, I but I still lurves me some aliems.

In AD&D, class group was both role and power source: defender/striker = fighter, controller = mage, healer = priest. Utility magic, when the AD&D rules cared, followed a similar pattern. Fantasy peoples don't need to have access to Martial/Arcane/Divine power sources, they need to have NPC...

I am experimenting with a hybrid approach, where ancestries have "racial classes" (possibly multiple) and occupational classes are more narrowly themed-- in a system where multiclassing is default-- and nonhuman ancestries have both a small selection of favored/discounted classes and a similarly...

Generally speaking... Under Warrior, I split Cavalier/Samurai and Fighter (Myrmidon)/Bushi into their own classes, combine Swashbuckler (Fighter) and Swashbuckler (Thief) with... fewer/less Thief skills, Swordsage (Kensai). Paladin and Ranger get more spellcasting access earlier; Paladins...

Dammit, the bug bit me again; I'm using Skills & Powers and Spells & Magic to reclass AD&D 1e/2e along those lines. Most of the classes I use are upgunned compared to their core counterparts. This is intentional. Warriors are the easiest class group to differentiate, then Mages and Priests...

I'd argue that 1e supplements generally dragged it down, and core 2e mostly included those parts-- so either core or "full" 1e to core 2e was a downgrade-- but the expansions and add-ons are what made AD&D 2e my favorite D&D edition and favorite game, period. Core 2e was just 1e with the worst...

Ironically, elves in my settings-- when I include elves in my settings-- aren't even humanoid, much less human. In Cosmic Rangers, the "Feywild" and the "Far Realms" are... both a spectrum and a matter of perspective... and the alufey are actually quite a lot closer to the aberration end of the...

Not going to touch D&D. Too complicated, too emotionally laden. Shadowrun 1e -> 2e -> 3e are straight upgrades. I think the mechanical changes between 3e -> 4e are mostly positive, but I definitely prefer the 2050s to the 2070s as a setting. On the other hand, the 4e system is a lot more...

Ooooh, that's a neat trick. Yeah, that's been a major gripe of mine, dating back to the 3.5 era. I didn't really notice in AD&D or 3.0, but with the more complicated class system, and looking back at Classic D&D with race-as-class, it started to stand out more. My frustrating with this has...

I move too often to have owned anything for forty years. Most of my computer hardware is 5-6 years old. My sidearm was manufactured in the 1980s, but I bought it ten years ago; my car's a 2001 model, but I bought it four years ago. Been using the same wheelchair for six years.

I try very hard the first time. I don't try as hard the second time. If I run a game for a third time, I'm taking some liberties.

You know, when I homebrew a world for a campaign, the ancestries I allow aren't just a list of things I think are cool. I design the world around my whitelists and blacklists. They have cultures, and territories, and allies and enemies. If a common element is absent, I've planned around its...

In response to this thread, and a little bit of the Evolution thread. D&D24 has ten ancestries, including tiefling and aasimar. D&D14 has nine, including half-elf and half-orc. Level Up has eight, not including any of the above as separate races. So... you're writing the next PHB. It's your...