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This sounds like a cool method for leveling in a performance game, but I think 95% of real players are going to decide that the...

I will say that I looked a bit askance at the utility of attack matrices for a while, but gained an appreciation during a 5e game where...

I do this, when it seems to make sense, but there's no real way to hard-code much of it as every situation is different and it might not...

And often can't be done in advance at all. When the party reach a given encounter I've no way of knowing ahead of time whether they'll...

It's fairly rare that a known player-side bonus is negative. Most negative modifiers are applied by DM-side things that the players...

Yeah. I really think that's too bad. Having downtime makes the experience of exploring the setting through your PC (which is why I game...

Thats on the designers for not having some sort of solid starter adventure that shows how to play. With no direction we went to our...

I think the lack of downtime means people don't really think about it, I feel like many adventures instead have a story arc and you...

Part of that is there's already so many spells out there it can be hard to come up with a new idea.

For THAC0 to be of much use it requires the player to know the target's AC, which they often don't until the combat is nearly over...

So far your collective ideas for a Wine domain sounds pretty much like what Dionysus and his Clerics already are in my game. :) The...

Thief-Illusionist rolls d5 (average of d6 and d4). 10 of those would average exactly 30, meaning if the rolls were just a slight bit...

Oh, they do - but even then the time it takes still accumulates. :)

Right now the crew I'm running range from a Fighter with just over 100 h.p. all the way down to a Thief-Illusionist who is in the low...

Permanent modifiers aren't the problem. For example, if your go-to weapon is a +2 longsword you'll always remember that +2 and if your...