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When a player has decided that they are a helpless puppet of chance to such an extent that they have already decided they can offer...

Yeah, demanding explanations is what gives us Midi-chlorians. Do you want midi-chlorians? Because that's how you get midi-chlorians!

Eldritch Knight Fighter or Bladesinger Wizard make the most sense to me.

The positives of randomness is that it forces people to act and react in ways they are not expecting-- thereby producing results that...

Not to mention the fact that WotC continues to write and publish the larger hard cover adventure path books, which would lead one to...

I think it is the combination of these things that create really interesting random encounters which in turn provide worthwhile but...

If I use a random encounter table (rare)... the table includes not only the person/creature/event encounter but also the purpose of...

The activities the PCs engage in don't take weeks or months to complete.

I don't feel the need to add or remove classes from the game, because I can just go searching for anything I might need out in the...

I'm in category 4, all the way! I don't even think about the "adventuring day" - that is not a concept that comes into my head outside...

I don't use Downtime (as a discreet "thing" that fast-forwards the world) as we always just continue to roleplay the periods of time...

I have no idea of what you mean. These leveling to narrative issues are universal from at least 3E on. There's no edition specificity...

Yeah, leveling causes all kinds of issues with regards to both the mechanics of the game, as well as the narrative and story of the game...

I think the discussion also brings up a long-time flaw of level-based games. The assumed power scaling prevents people from easily using...

Not per se, but it's there and published for people to use... thereby reducing the need for WotC to create an entirely new standard...