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If they're being generated by me, then most likely by the allocation of AC, HD and few other key values, and certainly not by following...

Connecting the Hickman Revolutionaries to the Forge in the way you seem to here is, in my opinion, a significant misread of the Forge...

Sure. The idea that elves who live hundreds of years and who seem to have some innate connection to magic would somehow not be able to...

In RQ, non-human creatures are statted in a way that parallels PC stats. But they aren't built via a parallel process (eg there is no...

I agree with @hawkeyefan here. There is a clear process in classic D&D: the GM maps and keys a dungeon; the movement of the PCs through...

This is wrong about Gygax's AD&D, in multiple ways. For instance: In the MM, Elves are 1+1 HD. Nothing in the Elven PC build rules...

I’m sure games prior to this point used it, but not any versions of D&D. Or at least, not consistently. I do recall some products that...

Yeah, perhaps. It is just something I like regardless of what school it is. Though I totally get what you mean by 3e, and it certainly...

I agree it's not necessarily old school, just the way I prefer. And you don't need to use as much prep with NPCs to do things this way...

If 3e D&D is the first time that PCs and NPCs were really built in the same way, doesn't that just make such an approach "New School" by...

I don’t think that all GM side procedures constitute GM fiat. Sure, a GM could always ignore the expected procedures by exercising fiat…...

Sure. That's similar to the point that was made earlier: i.e,. the idea that PC/NPC builds being the same represents "old school" is...

The claim that parity between NPC and PC creation is somehow “old school” just seems revisionist to me. It’s a perfectly fine...

But I think rife with NSR ones (which is what, all the core OSR principles but distancing themselves from the reactionaries + changing...

FWIW, I don't think that contemporary approaches to TTRPGs are necessarily opposed to simulationism as was earlier discussed. However, I...