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Yeah I think that's a lot more accurate than 'stripped down 5e'.

I think it splits the difference. You can argue about whether it's 5E stripped down to the chassis or whether it was built from the...

Not critical. Scroll 6 is mighty thin now though. The rest at least have Adventures. I do like this list of Expanded stuff, even if the...

Theoretical it might be, but the game is designed around X encounters per day, and that model does fail almost immediately in almost...

No, it doesn't, but that doesn't mean that's not how the CR and class mechanics were designed. Hence the ... issues.

This is the issue, yes. You need to readjust this whole metric is you want things to feel different.

6-8 recommended combat encounters a day. The vast majority of character abilities have a direct combat application.

It's not "exactly" about marketing, as much as it is about presentation and a design choice to allow the art and text of the game to...

This seems about right. 5E has been turned to other purposes, as has Blades. Frankly, I like the Blades iterations more than the 5E...

That makes two of us. :D Perhaps familiarity is a barrier here? I don't know how familiar you are with the Blades mechanics or the host...

Pardon? The core rules are not 'built for fantasy' at all (and less so that D&D is), and the downtime rules only need adjustment and...

I think you're conflating the rules and the setting. 5E doesn't have anything but the vaguest 'fantasy' setting implied, where BitD has...

Yeah, no. 5E isn't remotely generic in its design and implementation. I'm not even sure why you'd say that. The underlying mechanical...

What people have used it for and what its designed for are two different things. Intentional design is a break point here. GURPS is...

Yes, Orbril the Gnome was Professor of Applied Alchemy at the Imperial Research Academy and acknowledge for several major contributions...