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It's pretty wild how this thread has gone from "Are the differences between 2 distinct 27 point buy arrays meaningful for balance" to...

This seems to boil down to the "My odds are 50-50, either I make it or I don't" meme.

Oh yeah, race-specific hit dice, I remember that the d20 Farscape game had that, and classes added a bonus modifier, and your class...

Sure, but I wanted to point out that Essentials introduced that problem into 4E, and 6E designers need to keep that in mind. If they care.

I can't read that sort of stuff without this going off in my brain (even though OG Red Sonya isn't too bad either): "Now, there is a...

Essentials was probably too late (and within 4E concept of balance, I think they're problematic. The moment not everyone has encounters...

The logistics of it might not work in his favor, because there are still many able-bodied people that could be willing to resist. Naboo...

Attacks rolls and Saves (if they are kept around at all and aren't all turned into defenses) use 1d20, skill checks roll 2d10 (or 3d6)...

But does it need to pick a lane? You might like that on an aesthetic level? But maybe D&D is successful because it never picked a lane...

Maybe stifle is too hard as a word? "Delay"? I mean he got two decades of rulership out of it, didn't he? Would that have worked if...

In your fiction perhaps, that would never happen in the real world. People have seen Star Wars and could spot the plot from a mile away.

It's a common enough playbook. You gin up a controversy of some sort, raise an army of thugs/clones, send them into sensitive areas...

In a way, the whole CLone Wars exist to create a huge kill zone for Jedi, Ruin Explorer? Might work. But it seems the whole spiel was...

Sorry man, this is what peak performance looks like

I think the true reason is far simpler - less flawed methodology requires a far more elaborate setup and many more moving parts than...