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Negative levels were fussy to deal with, unfun for players, and messes with keeping players at the same level in an era where many...

Mod Note: I’m a practicing Catholic, and one of my favorite classes in college was “Biblical Themes in Literature”. In it, Prof. Bates...

That is evil. Pure self-interest with no regard for right or wrong is about as evil as you can get outside of supernatural creatures of...

I've only recently gotten the chance to browse through Dawnforge and thought it looked incredibly similar to what we've heard about 4E...

Holy crap!! There are other RPGs besides Dungeons and Dragons? I have never once encountered such a thing in the 40 years I've been...

As someone in a long-term Pathfinder Campaign I can't really cosign that. Just by virtue of people picking social and non-combat...

I mean, isn't that what game companies just do? You don't believe 5e is the reigning champ because of this design process, do you?

I don't know if it's 'perfect', but V for Vendetta by the Wachowskis is tight; not an ounce of fat on that film: the plot moves, yet...

I feel like you'd have a bunch of people saying "These casters are so generic, they all just feel like one another" especially if you...

Honestly the problem with the vampire is that it's a striker with basically no double-tap abilities, reactions, or bonus action attacks...

So, with respect, but...clearly not, right? The casters do more than that; just look at how sorcerers, druids and witches all do...

Yeah, they're fairly different, unless we use definitions so broad (like you did above) to reduce everything to being same-y. And hey...

To some, sure. But it's a game we're playing, and mechanics are a big part of it. These options are going to provide more fun for some...

The OGL fiasco succeeded in moving me primarily to PF2e, with dabbles in Daggerheart, Kids on Bikes, and Blades in the Dark. For me...

Mechanics seem significantly different enough...