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I'm sorry to hear that, because that path is a lot harder to work with. I played d20 (3e and Pathfinder) for two decades and encounter...

You have to either stop thinking of it in those terms, or you have to do the work to make NPCs make sense. My brain doesn't allow for...

That's what I've been doing- I'll have everyone roll and say "these are the arrays you can use to build your characters".

I've had this debate with people I play with for years. They insist point buy is the way to go, even though point buy for one class can...

Ah the Gladiator. How often I've used them as an example. I'm amused that most of the time, when I do, people tend to dismiss me, but...

Now me personally, I'm of two minds when it comes to the "streamlining" of classes. My mental picture of a Monk isn't some skinny dude...

Ahh, ye olde magiks......

When I first entered the hobby, I would go to the FLGS. I was into the TTRPGs, but there was always (ALWAYS) a table of grizzled old...

not including shields in EVERY light armor proficiency gained is a mistake by WotC.

The problem with this approach is that armor or weapon requiring more than a 14 str would never arise. There just aren't enough people...

Settings used to be more fluid, I've noticed. Back in the TSR days, if a new supplement or Dragon magazine article came out and said...

Heck, they had two different actors for Howard Stark pretty much at the same time!

The entire Leveled Class System is Narrative Dissonance. PCs can go from Level 1 to Level 5 after like two modules that take place over...

i guess i'm just not seeing that the things you're claiming as problems are actually issues, having your most used spells transmuted is...

Since damage type rarely matters, why not just allow the draconic sorcerer to cast their energy type spells as the original element or...