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Fair. You can do most things in stories where the author has control over everything and there is a single main character. All the...

Honest question: who is demanding that? Like, actually want the game to have no consequences at all for player actions?

We did try it in 2e. Declare, roll, modify. Wasn't a fan. To many times spellcasters lost their turn due to their targets no longer...

if it's not a spell and without concentration? why not.

or axe the whole concept of "slayer of X". that is a good background story and really bad mechanic in game. have ranger be Slayer of...

AEDU is a great idea, but needs ability to be more customizable. 1st of E, needs to be from really short rest, 1minute or 5min max...

Yes, that's exactly my problem with the more common viewpoints around classes. It's the idea that thousands of NPCs are all going to...

Classes and levels are both player-facing constructs for creating player characters that are "balanced" against each other. We know...

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Yes, but that's because the metagame constructs of class and level aren't actually laws binding the fiction. They're tools to provide a...

Error. Fallacy of the excluded middle. No one has said that there are no consequences - just that your god or patron can't yoink your...

And to clarify, when you say consequence, you mean that you expect the GM to measure your actions and enforce a consequence on your...

So much of this game was built on DMs and players engaging in "good natured antagonism" that it really paints the Hickman Revolution as...

I'm getting a weird feeling of déja vu here. Like this thread combines a few recently epic debate threads into one. Is this another...

My concern would be that classless and skill tree systems tend to produce much, much less variety, not more, as players converge on a...