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Cool. So far, at least. Does it affect the design? If not, it's wasted, IMO. If I'm playing a cleric, or if the cosmology includes...

As reading material, it can be interesting, as gaming framework, I don't know that I can remember a solid concept let alone one which...

I clicked the middle option but really I feel like you can separate games into two groups: 1) Those heavily informed by their...

Edit: assuming a D&D type game... As a player: Having some very basic information, if relevant to the character's origin (ie does this...

I don't think it is particularly interesting or important, unless it creates actually gameable opportunities.

I do homebrew settings, and creating cosmologies is an essential part of that. Not so much for my players (or my readers, in the case of...

I think that my primary interest in cosmology tends to be a little more anthropological. I am curious to see how it shapes and informs...

Learning the cosmology for a given setting is an interesting thing to read about. :) My favorite D&D cosmology would have to be...

Whether or not I-as-player ever read any of it, I still want it to be there as a foundation that makes the setting tick and that informs...

God no please. The most concrete skills should get us how they were in 4e, and even that is too specific and thus restricted. I...

5E could really use 2/3rd caster types. honestly, only wizards and clerics should be full casters. druids, bards, warlocks, artificers...

Years ago, yeah, nowadays no. If I do something on another plane its one and done, doesn't need an entire explanation of the planes.

I want to know the background lore and stuff, but I'm pretty sure I'm in a minority. But I think it's good to have it there, as a "base...

I have played a lot of games with this type of system. PbtA and Blades most commonly. And it was a problem with all but the very best...

Yes, and also remind players they can hand the spotlight off with a bit of fiction to another player! “Jon yells “Kyree, can you fix...