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Oh, and let's not forget that I5 was the first time a monster had character class levels. Another important innovation.

It had several innovations for it's time A strong, central villian whose history and motivations were mapped out rather than being...

You were the person that brought up « character-centric » approach to characterize the perspective you disagreed with, while labelling...

Ok, I’m just landing and seeing this. I want to clarify briefly. It’s not “character-centric” in isolation. It’s that in concert with...

If your intention is not to be condescending would in not be more accurate to ground the descriptions based on what makes them distinct...

I’m simply pointing out the inherent contradiction that you seem to be willing to accept fantasy realism in one case but not in the...

I would add any strictly linear style campaigns would likely not be considered a sandbox. My Candlekeep Mysteries campaign, where it...

Let me express this differently: If a certain outcome enhanced a character’s narrative but flat out contradicted a fact that had been...

You have argued that a religion that would condemn a person’s family to hell if that person (but not the family) drinks a glass of mead...

When a definition of something starts getting overly broad, I generally find it useful to try and define by exclusion. What sort of...

Here’s the post. It was an example from this thread, not from a real game, but it mimics how such traits come to be in actual games...

It did not appear to be unserious in context. It appeared to be perfectly serious. And the person to whom you were replying was almost...

Safety tools are also rules, and thus by your standard utterly useless.

When there are no notes (published or otherwise) about the guard or other things, I let the rolls decide things. I just need to better...

Here are the relevant rules for Burning Wheel (from the Gold edition, pp pp 9-11, 24-25, 30-31, 72): In the game, players take on the...