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7th sea 2nd edition was downgrade from 1st edition. First, they changed from call raise first, then roll to see if you made it to roll...

I consider all revisions of D&D to be upgrades, though never without areas that were changed that should not have been touched, and...

If you want to flavor the Healing power as being shapeshifting, you can. Effects are what matter.

Sure, but sometimes rules are more "Game" than they are "Logic".

I think he did a superb job of managing the design of the edition. He intentionally suppressed his own personal preferences to try to...

At at the very beginning of the lifecycle of 4E... many classes were indeed different in the powers they had access to and how they used...

If the rulebook is more than 3 paragraphs, then there are going to be additional rules above and beyond "ask the players what they want...

Never. No point. I know how to run the basic tenet of every RPG (ask the players what they want to do, tell them what happens when they...

As far as I'm concerned, every game is a tool kit, to be tweaked and changed as much or as little as I need, in order to provide me the...

Presumably it's because that's what the design team as a whole decided was the best option at the time, despite what any individual...

Good additions that you like. But there are things in 5E that you probably like that didn't come from 4E. And there are probably...

if you don't like 5e D&D, isn't the answer not to play it?

There are two different problems with Tyranny. One is that when it was originally released, the combat balance was all out of whack...

Yup. Unless (like you said) the DM is fine with creating their own encounters that run alongside the adventure and is good at...

No. You are absolutely correct. The phrase is "ExekielRaiden's playstyle doesn't matter, so WotC isn't going to include it among the...