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I don't like that your argument is ultimately about the motivations of the players, and in a distinctly disparaging way ("crown of...

DM's pick essentially everything about the world, portray virtually every NPC, so for me it is a huge red flag when they cant relinquish...

One thing is a resource that is spent to make things happen. Exciting! The other thing is a resource that is spent to not die. Boring!

Problematic content aside, it's only natural that some writers who were superstars in the SF/fantasy world back then haven't stood the...

While I've never heard anything bad about Stephen R. Donaldson himself, the rape scene in Lord Foul's Bane is much less palatable to...

He's correct about the end result (Legendary Resistance is a cheap trick shoved in to deal with design faults), and the initial impetus...

For my group back in the day, the list of AD&D rules we didn't use is probably longer than the one of rules we kept.

Or, as an alternative, give the fighter more options in combat. Instead of Attack, Attack, Attack, why not give the fighter... special...

Are you a card carrying member of the Spellcasters Supremacy Society? There is already a wide enough gap between casters and martials...

That's the thing cap, I don't want to respect logistics.

nods in 13th Age

Booth Draw Steel and Pathfinder Second Edition put substantially more effort into non-combat mechanics than D&D typically does.

I'd say torches have been irrelevant since 1E. Sure, you used torches and lanterns for a couple of levels -- and then the party cleric...

Nah. I have no particular opinion on the '24 fighter, but the 4e fighter is absolutely the high point of fighter design. It has a...

First of all,we should not take anything the Alexandrian writes particularly seriously. Second, asking players to fill in details...