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On the topic of "How to make playing a healer fun and attractive", my first through is the other main RPG I play. Which the MMORPG Final...

Yes, I worked in the Book Department from 1988 to 1994 and was at one time series editor for both the Ravenloft and Realms fiction...

Yes. Above “name level” - where the level title matches the class name and HD top out and level titles stop changing, typically around...

Yeah, I've experienced about the same. Most campaigns I'd consider "long running" still conclude somewhere in the 12th-14th level range...

I'm not entirely sure about "many people," as I would argue you would need very small values of "many" for that to be correct. But...

I think the bottom line is that 1e was much better balanced RAW than people give it credit. However, those rules were complex and very...

As a mere babe who started with the dawn of 2e, I can't say how much of this was true in the 1e days. But when I started, one of the...

The feature, by the way, says that “you usually contacted your patron via intermediaries”. It DOES NOT say that the patron wasn’t...

False. Before level 3 the default is that your patron isn’t specified, but no actual rule prevents deciding your patron up front. That...

That's a close reading of the 2024 warlock, too close IMO. And far from making the warlock a "non-entity". The DM is "not allowed"...

Talking to my wife today she had the same reaction I do to the idea of Sorcer-King Patron being an inherently “your character is evil”...

I was just thinking the same thing. Dark Sun really needs a fixed Year Zero starting point. One where things are generally pretty bad...

That goes back to how some settings have heroes as the enforcers of a relatively benign quo where the villains are those who threaten...

And the tension between the novel metaplot and the game supplements has caused dissention to this day. Though making game supplements...

Yes and no. Dark Sun was a very 90's thing. Lots of pointing out social ills, but with a nihilistic despair that the corrupt system is...