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There would have to be a curated and hard-coded list of what creatures these guys could turn into at what level, in order to avoid this...

because there's the other half of 'everybody' who love martials.

If I'm designing a game system in hopes of reaching an audience greater than friends and family, I'm going to try my best to make that...

See, this is where I curse the Forge and how its influence on RPGs can be extremely regressive. Specifically, the hyperfocus on jargon...

We're talking about whether or not someone is designing with intent, or aimlessly. Here you appear to be explicitly stating that it is...

Sorry, but parties working to obtain an item by doing their very best to not obtain it goes back to the dawn of rpgs. :)

The very question in the thread title to me reads as being completely time-based, and could be synonymously rewritten as "what do you...

It's not a question of special purpose or general purpose tools here. It's the extremely value-laden comparison of intentional vs...

The problems arise when what is better for some people isn't better for others. Your two Black Lotus pictures are a good example. The...

Yes, and in some cases that's what makes it work well: different subsystems were designed to best handle different things, rather than...

This sounds like the sort of thing I was talking about earlier, where "intention" is being linked to making sure every mechanic overtly...

Honestly, this kind of thing just tells me that people discussing "specific intentions" vs "creating aimlessly" are incredibly pretentious.

60 sessions is short by my standards. Any edition of D&D will do for this, as will (as others have noted) a fairly wide variety of...

You could have a base class that kind of builds in its own single subclass, such that the player doesn't have to bother choosing...

What they can do is let the adventurers know what happened, or keep them from running off or getting spooked. And plenty of things...