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I wish Beyond still had the à la carte options. I can't see me dropping that much cash for material I'll mostly not use.

It's worth noting that Jason Tondro was the lead designer and he's been writing RPG stuff for a while. He was at Paizo before he was at...

While I have the utmost respect for the senior developers that have moved on from WOTC, I sometimes wonder if some of the old guard...

Very practical breakdown, Mike. Keen to hear your thoughts in more detail! This is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think the 3E FRCS...

Maybe me and my group are weird, but I (the DM) find it easy to structure fun and effective play that doesn't rely on the...

That may be true, but I think players' sense of loss aversion is going to drive them to prioritise "my character survives" over "I had...

But self nerfing is no fun either! Beating a challenging fight that was challenging only because you intentionally played stupidly just...

I agree! Unfortunately the rest of your post is too long and since I am at work I don't have time to read it - sorry! Maybe latter.

"Fun" is subjective though. There is a certain class of player who enjoys finding exploits and, well, exploiting them. Out of morbid...

Sure - that is not really what I was pushing back on. My point, an RPG is played to have fun, so have fun. Don't let "tools" get in...

No, that's exactly the transference that's being pointed out. You gave the player a problem to solve and tools to solve it, if the...

Look I am not pushing back against the general idea. I am just pushing back that anyone should play a game like D&D in a manner that is...

False Hydra, anything Incorporeal so I can creep through walls and floors, or a level appropriate Sibriex!

I recently ran some of the new mummy against the PCs and the auto mummy rot on a hit made them scared. Wraiths have the cannot heal...

I believe that the change in distributor from Random House to in house Hasbro is the main reason that they are not on Bookscan.