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Charisma isn't the same as Comeliness. The Mule is 100% charismatic and compelling even if ugly. And beholders are Charisma 17.

You start to have serious questions about the purposefulness of design when you see a bunch of independent subsystems for different...

This is an easily overlooked benefit of the wizard. Intelligence is a great skills-stat and Investigation is IME the second most...

Most generic games I can think of, like GURPS or Fate, are clear products of a worldview and are because of that actually decently...

I think you are misunderstanding me: what I'm saying is other way around. Better = modern. Modern [X] is better than Old [X], because...

I don't know what to tell you man. I'm not exactly an enemy of generic systems (I spent probably half my gaming career running the Hero...

Another problem is that is presupposes the older paradigm of "I roll my stats, and those inform what classes I'll be good at", a...

Broadly I think it's something to be avoided, if possible. If something can be modeled within the existing general rules, creating a...

You are aware that the College of Whispers bard is a full cater with no ability with poison? So that couldn't have been what he meant...

I don't think there should be only one class that prioritizes Intelligence, really. What if you don't want to play a spellcaster, let...

I always wonder why party synergy is so rarely discussed. Individual characters can't stack buffs like older editions, but multiple...

Wizards being a dying class just doesn't match with my experience. As I said my previous Spelljammer campaign as a DM had two of them...

Throw the druid and in many cases the warlock on that pile of classes that are good at exploring.