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Forgive me for expecting a game's design to reward you for doing the things that are fun, rather than rewarding you for doing things...

Yes. I have. It isn't that different.

And you aren't pretending like your experience is gospel? You're the one claiming I couldn't possibly have had the experiences I've had...

Okay. Good for you? The adventures I've played, and the non-adventure campaigns I've been in, they've consistently failed to be enough...

My point was that a non-spellcaster healer very nearly doesn't exist in 5e. You have the Healer feat and....that's pretty much literally...

As unfortunate as it is to turn down a game that actually starts at a high level, no. I struggle to feel invested in pregen characters.

Given I have far more experience with the than I have with any other system...and I've played numerous PF1e and 3.5e games and multiple...

Not at all. Because if the party has a healer, 99% of the time that healer is also a spellcaster, because Mearls & co. danced on the...

This is hardly an example of that (the idea of the authority of the GM has sprawled across many games) and even if it were distinct that...

Everything has lower ACs, but more hit points. It's more fun for players to hit something and do some damage, than to whiff over and...

I mean, I kind of already addressed this...multiple times. Sandbox-y games work to maximize agency in both amount and kind. The more...

And yet they are also what necessarily must be questioned when either reviewing games that already exist, or choosing to design a game...

Well, resuming from the point where I left off, which is after the point where problematic but not "clearly a jerk who doesn't deserve...

Yes, agreed, and I've posted the same. Right. In the context of a discourse that often seems to treat 1984 or thereabouts as a normative...

Right, I think Lew Pulsipher was reasonably correct in his analysis at the level of understanding of RPG play/design c1979 or so. I...