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I'm probably being too broad there, let me dial that rhetoric back a little. Obviously we all have preferences and those will inevitably...

Those certainly are creative, and I get that this can be fun to some people. But this is also the sort of thing I want to avoid. This...

WotC's 4e marketing strategy quite intentionally took the tack of actively punting all previous D&D editions to the curb, leading many...

Even in RPGs I do like, I still prefer it when the rules get out of the way whenever it's reasonably possible than they can.

So what I'm hearing is that if you don't enjoy RPGs the same way you do, then you shouldn't be playing your RPG, or possibly any RPG?

Right you are, and the very best RPGs use the system to express the setting and its themes. But those games are not generic and usually...

Ya know, you might be on to something here. What if Humans, being the generic baseline, were restricted to also only being the generic...

The more common pushback on B/X race-as-class isn’t the existence of limitations but the limitations not making sense from a...

The GM and the players have different jobs, but the GM creates/decides on the world and all the things the player can choose from to...

Do you allow Evil PCs in your game? Or CN hell-raiser PCs? If you do, good on ya! :) If you don't, however, then you're making...

Worldbuilding and believability are much more important to me than making sure every possible heritage and class is available and every...

Not sure where you're getting that from, unless your average party size is only 2 or 3 characters. BX and 1e etc. solved this by...

True. In previous editions, fighters were actually better fighters than other classes.

As I mentioned before, climbing and swimming. Can be life or death in any number of situations. Far as that goes, in some...

I mean, I do think giving every class that doesn't have one a flavorful non-combat ability or two would be an improvement, but mostly I...