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I always take prospective players out for lunch. I talk about my style, the game, and just talk to them about what they like in a game...

Luck, for me, is not a primary factor. In my experience, the deeper problem is that the TTRPG community is so atomized that it lacks...

I've tinkered with the idea of treating prestige classes as 5e subclasses in that you start acquiring the class features (so no spell...

Ah, I guess I'll find a way to point out a recurrent problem then.

In recent weeks, I've decided to crack open my 3.0e PHB and started addressing the foundational problems at their very beginning. It's...

A word of advice: I had a similar discussion with Maxperson in another thread and I realized I was wasting time when it became apparent...

You’re not wrong. At a surface level, 3.5e should not punish a DM for lacking encyclopedic rules knowledge. But there is a certain...

Even with a cohesive vision, there's just too much content to assume it'll all play nice together. I think in this regard 3.x is like...

So, catching up with the thread, here is how I would put it: the problem with the supplement treadmill does not stop at power creep or...

It rewarded system mastery but based on what was actually published, it falls more into the bucket of a supplemental treadmill than an...

Can't fault you for that. Based on the timeline of Orcus (the original 4E prototype), they were well into evacuating the 3.5e space by...

Agreed. When I wrote a ban list for 3.0e, it was considerably smaller than my ban list for 3.5e.

Pretty much my understanding. If you internalize that context, you can run 3.5e without issue because you know that whatever is in the...

The splatbooks definitely had power creep. Core was already unbalanced and while there was material to help patch CORE issues, it also...

It does drive away a lot of people, and I still think it’s worth it. Filtering hard gave me a stable group that is now nearing its ninth...