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They are all legacy classes. But both the Sorcerer and Warlock were designed from a mechanics-first perspective. Sorcerer in 3e: "What...

I think your dungeon example illustrates the distinction I was trying to get at. Yes, players have meaningful choices within the...

I think you may be reading more into my comment than was there. I didn’t claim styles were chosen “arbitrarily,” or that GM authority is...

The difficulty with pinning down “railroading” is that the word isn’t just about technique—it’s about power dynamics inherited from the...

At the end of the day, whether any style works or does not work comes down to the DM and the players being on the same page and playing...

That's not the way I'm reading it. You called the rules terrible earlier, and as guidelines, they're not. They're really useful as a...

Yeah, a frustrating thing is when people find one line from the SRD and treat it like it’s from a book of rules written in a legalese...

You’re misreading the table as a hard rule when it’s clearly a guideline. The book even says so in bold, on p. 155: More importantly...

One thing to keep in mind is that the most reliable way to find a system’s “pitfalls” is to encounter them with your own group. Advice...

I have no idea where this perspective comes from. Here's what the book says about spending Fear: That sounds pretty clear to me: it's a...

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Appreciate the clarification—and I get it. The conversation around this game is already loaded with assumptions, and it doesn’t take...

Faster is an odd measurement, because I don't use a stopwatch or time combat ... so while I think combat takes the same amount of time...

Oh yeah. In theory from outside, this should be a hand in glove fit. And it wasn't just dictated at you, I've just seen far too many...

Fair, but I think you’re interpreting my post more literally than it was intended. I’m not suggesting Daggerheart is the official...