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I don't expect PCs and NPCs to all have identical abilities, but I do expect PC classes to have some reflection in the game world. Like...

Depends on the table, obviously. For me they very much are. I'll die on that hill.

The best for the thief/assassin cover story is he would always say he would check for traps, I would roll and say "You don't find any."...

Speaking of "Lord" level- should we count the generally better class of followers attracted by the Fighter as an advantage? Clerics get...

You blew your own cover, then. Should have come in as a "light-armoured Fighter-Thief". I've pulled that one before. Also brought in...

I have used AD&D psionics in serious games, and I like psi in my fantasy, but I won't lift a finger to defend the PH appendix version...

The current game I'm in I talked about? The DM is in her late 20s. So they still exist and aren't just all old grogs.

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...

In fact the segmented round is a very good idea, except it needs to be six segments (to line up with the d6 initiative roll) rather than...

This is true. Which is why I always try to write something about it in the disclaimers. It's in this one- -As always, if you get five...

As I've mentioned in the past, I had an unhealthy love of the illusionist class. Probably because of the illustration in The Rogue's...

Not knowing the comic, I thought you'd taken that illustration from some 1e-era Judges Guild module or other as there's several very...

Larger question: why are we always questioning what "Game X does"? You're exactly correct about when people talk about how older...

Indeed, but such armour should carry a heavy financial cost, thus forcing tradeoffs - do I buy the arcane-aid armour or do I load up on...

I don't. Absolutes keep things nice and simple on both sides of the screen. As soon as you put it on any sort of sliding scale of...