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But it is in a lot of magic-centric fantasy. The hard outer limits might not always be defined but there's often a clear rationale...

Yes, and they also provide a framework to begin to balance from. Rolling has its place (I love it in Shadowdark for example) but in...

if all you do is roll 3d6 or so six times, yeah, maybe not that much faster. Someone invariably rolls badly however and does not like...

I prefer it, but then I prefer arrays too, probably for much the same reason (speed and simplicity)

Slavery on Athas When the Sorcerer Kings conquered Athas with their terrible magics they eagerly took slaves of every people they...

that doesn’t sound at all like what you wrote in your previous post. I agree that they should not spend many pages on that, but...

That's a total non-explanation. Just a dodge and nothing else. Totally empty of any meaning. You'd have to describe the force in some...

What I was responding to (I think, don't actually remember as to much has happened between then and now) was that people wanted the...

And that is the reason I switched to Dragonbane from 5e (after playing basic D&D, AD&D 2nd ed, D&D 3.0, D&D 3.5, D&D 4 and D&D 5)...

This could go either way I believe, releasing a new version offers the opportunity for the 3pps to release a lot of updated material and...

I suspect that if I ran a Dark Sun game with cannibal halfling as a player option, I would get a 100% halfling party.

Pet peeve: Athasian halflings aren't cannibals. They don't eat other halflings.

presenting evil as evil is a neutral stance… having the characters oppose an oppressive system that is built on slavery is not really a...

If presenting evil things as evil and directing heroes toward opposing those evils makes you feel "Guilt Tripped" for wanting to play in...

wouldn’t the same designers that release stuff for 5.5 then release it for 6e? What would you gain?