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1) I believe that in 3E, Yggdrassil worked like a transitive plane (see the 3E Manual of the Planes for more on them). 2) 3E uses the...

And regarding patrons/deities/etc shutting down the character's powers, you can easily have a setup where it is metaphysically possible...

I'd like to bring up a point- corrupt priests. In a series of fantasy novels I've read, the protagonists belong to one of several...

I can’t see post you are replying to, but one thing I learned as a teacher - if someone is not engaging, punishing them isn’t going to...

Yeah the 5e designers gave up on making Psionics mean anything and just made it a spellcaster with vaguely thematic spells. I dont know...

But none of those characters exist together. We’re not doing the Lanefan thing where everyone’s setting is connected to everyone else’s.

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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