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I realize you are speaking in general terms, which is why I can sarcastically reply back in the same general terminology. Your quote...

One of the first things I did when I re-wrote my homebrew was to go with ascending AC. It never, ever made sense. I'd agree. In fact...

I don't know if it's so slow as to make things problematic. This leads to a side-discussion on preparation - let's say I have four...

Tables are even easier. I have a fourth-level Samurai. Fights as a fighter of equal level. The player rolls a 14. I look at my table...

Ah, I think I mis-read. Yeah, I know, someone admitted they were wrong on the Interweb. It can happen. There. One of the reasons I...

If you honestly believe that it is the act of excluding itself that creates fun for the GM, it's understandable that people are talking...

That's a broad brush. I have orcs. I even have stories of Orcish rangers working with the Allied Races during the third Hillbeast Wars...

Played from 86-88, DMed for about five-six years; then stopped. Picked it up again last year.

Might be an age thing, too. I grew up in the pencil-and-paper world, with memorized "six eights are forty-eight, seven eights are...

Elves, dwarves, hobbits halflings, humans. Those were the original PC races. Because Tolkien. There was even a kerfuffle with Tolkien...

Uh... that's not what a compromise is.

Methinks you are forgetting where D&D started from - modelling Tolkien. None of those critters existed in OD&D. But races/classes and...

Maybe this is good old neurodivergent me, but I find it just as easy to add 15 to 8 to get 23 as it is to subtract 8 from 23 and get 15.

I had one-on-one "interviews" with all my players, and gave them the background, races, cultures and the like. It's very old-school...