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Another good thing about Solo was that it did some decent seeding - having taken up and used a lot of established plot, it generously...

Honestly, I don’t really see that. Han in Solo is much the same guy as he is in Star Wars and in the various prequel books I’m old...

Definitely want to level-lock those, although what level depends a lot on the edition. At this point it's more of a feat tax for humans...

For me, I simply prefer that mechanics represent something in the setting, as accurately as practically possible, as often as...

Always-on waterbreathing and flight seems a bit much, particularly at low-mid level, in terms of how easily it negates some common...

They're repeat customers every time they buy an adventure module. That's where early TSR blundered into getting it right and later TSR...

If you can't access Facebook, its pretty much (now) all in the OP. In any case, fits everything else we have heard about TSR's...

A good item buying (and selling!) system requires the DM to go through and price every magic item on the list individually, with each...

Hear hear to this one - IMO all casters should work this way (and if that means concatenating a few caster classes together e.g...

I don't like the increasing focus on character building through rules systems. I do like like the increasing simplification of rules...

When upcasting and the like exist, you're right. But if slots are locked such that you can only ever use a slot of a spell's own level...

It's the "confused player during character generation" element that IMO really has to go.

I maintain that if a new player, who has never played the games, needs to read through a 15+ spell descriptions and understand them...

And the problem there is...?

Systems are just compilations of mechanics. Advice crosses the line into mechanics anywhere that "should" or "best practice" in a...