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Interesting that you say this. I came to like race as class (especially ACKS style, with multiple classes for each race) when I...

I can only speak for myself, but the way I approach, assess and use RPGs is completely and utterly different to the way I approach and...

Speaking generally, the longer this thread goes on, the more I feel that the most distinctive defining feature of modern RPG design...

This (more narrative games, players having more control over the fiction) falls under modern mechanics, doesn't it? Not a space I am...

For me, the overarching problem with that "particular narrow experience" approach is that every time I or the table wanted to do...

Agreed. Thing is, homebrewers gonna homebrew no matter what design is put in front of them, and there's a whole lot of homebrewers out...

as I wrote in another post, much of that is personal preference rather than some objectively measurable improvement. I agree that OSE’s...

Yeah, its probably more accurate to say that the modern period is not so much represented by better tools (which only makes sense from...

and highly themed games strike out when you want to play something outside their theme, even worse than more generic games do There...

I think a big enjoyment of generic or generic-ish systems is tuning them with a filer and finding your own meaning, and it being half a...

my take is that they were resisting an implicit ‘newer is always better’ in some posts kinda like this one ;) I would disagree with...

Which, now I think on it, makes me wonder why the OP framed the question around a 60-session span (or any limited-number span) rather...

In total, yes; but the martial side and the caster side would each have to be weaker than their single-class counterparts such that the...

I think @GobHag is proposing that each character would have two classes - one social, the other combat, mix and match - and that there'd...

In both 1e and 2e they do a lot more than just artillery; by 3e Evoker (the blaster option) had become one of the weaker Wizard options...