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Isn't "eeking out any way to improve the mechanical position of their PCs" exactly what players in a trad game is meant to be doing...

I'm interested how you determine how many checks you need for this more granular style - we all know that the more checks are made, the...

If you want to be ever so slightly charitable, the failure caused the guard to harass our singer. I highly doubt that anyone narrates...

The argument, I think, would be that experimentation with resource systems might lead the designers to find one that they really liked...

Grand, does that have any impact on the concept that we can analyse whether or not the changes did or did not have precedent based on...

I don't think that's relevant - the text is the text and we can see if the things being held up as new feature are actually new or not...

For 3e? The stat blocks in the relevant monster manuals. Mobs are described here : Template - Mobs - sorry, don't have the original...

It's something that we can determine fairly straighforwardly by looking at the text. There's very little mechanically in there that...

In precisely the same way as you might treat a creature as a different weight class in 4e. Whenever the GM decided it was more sensible...

Right, but the fact is, they existed. The concept that a creature could have different stats depending on who it was fighting and who...

This isn't true - it wasn't common but swarms and mobs also had this property. And for the same reason - to keep a certain monster...

Absolutely, You can make a fairly passable 4e clone with 3e unearthed arcana, Bo9S, ToM and so on.

Often enough, it's a minor sub-genre on Youtube

Well, because people keep posting about it.

I don't think this is really true. Let's say we have a scenario where there are two paths through a wood. One passes by a cave where...