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Level Up is compatible with 5e, and works great on its own.

To me the biggest headscratch move was killing the OGL when, as a lot of folks pointed out, you could just make a gated gated community...

I said more one than the other. That's not a binary.

I agree, though a great many players want a game like this where the attributes don't matter. Unless, of course, the player wants them...

I think the numbers are just shorthand for descriptors and they really should mean something. For instance a Dextrous character might...

No, both are important, but to me exploring the setting through your PC is more important than engaging strictly as a game. I think...

I don't see how it being fictional makes a difference.

It's also how you interact with the setting, and that's very important to me. In fact, it's what makes role-playing an enjoyable...

Sure, but I was responding an absolute. You should be able to go somewhere and find interesting to do, or come up with something.

Sure. But it also is a rather common form of railroading.

To me, if that's true it represents a failure in worldbuilding on the GM's part.

IMO the RP and the G are on equal footing. Why would it be otherwise?

I'm using setting to represent the world your PC was born into and grew up in, where they live and work. The real world informs our real...

To me, that seems more about the "G" than the "RP" (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I just don't see the point of the numbers if they don't inform your character and how you play them. If you're making it up in the...