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Except people like blowing stuff up.

I'd rather almost go the opposite: arcane casters become almost exclusively damage-dealing artillery and mind-screwers while divine...

...why would someone demand to see the playtest rules they themselves wrote?

Other than perhaps degree of organization, once the houserules become extensive enough what's the difference? Take the system I use...

Demanding maybe, but wanting the game to be designed how you want to play it is hardly odd.

I mean, I’m OK with it if it’s like Vecna or Tasha or even just unnamed Archmage A, but when even a so-called Apprentice Mage gets a...

This bugs me so much. Cool for monsters or unique things. Not cool for the NPC "wizards" of the world. (sorcerers, etc.)

My priority in making NPCs, as always, is doing my best to represent mechanically whatever the creature is supposed to be in the...

Worrying about balance is overrated. Make an NPC. If the party decides to attack said NPC for whatever reason, then the NPC might die...

I'm an "Old School Gamer" (at least according to many here :) ) and I think 3e got this bang-on right for NPCs that are PC-playable...

Interesting, that's definitely not my view of them. To me: Halflings are tenacious underdogs. Gnomes are mischievous and magical.

I largely agree; and have two means of to-a-point solving it: 1. Players are always allowed to play two characters at a time if...

Well, that depends. In Spelljammer, it was clear to me that the artwork was super-large to make up for the pathetically small amount of...

"Rawr! I'm a monster..."

That's fair. I've built up a rather crazy-size collection of minis over the decades, to the point where there's probably something here...