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This argument I consider works for at least the first half of the TSR era and at least arguably for the 2e era. But D&D has for the more...

coughs Oh, look at this Appendix in the DMG, showing the fiction that inspired the design of D&D...

No. The D&D game was written using bits and pieces of tabletop wargaming and started life as a hacked tabletop wargame. In a tabletop...

Recursive is the word I'd use.

D&D-derived heroic fantasy. It's its own genre and covers a whole lot of video games, but not a whole lot of classic fantasy like LotR...

And this leads to why this sort of conversation makes me want to tear my hair out. When I think of mechanics in tabletop RPGs that try...

This is interesting. Over the past few years, I've had exchanges on these board where some posters talk about verisimilitude not by...

That's the point. There was no functional way for them to play in those games, because the setting wouldn't work right without those...

Yup. I consider one of the deftest parts of design of Daggerheart to be that a 5e DM can jump straight to it, do very little to adapt...

I'm ambivalent. Even if you run it essentially trad, the hope and fear mechanics make it a better game than 5E.

I actually had him as the third name in my draft; he's definitely one of the greats.

'Selling his preferences' might be a more defensible position if it weren't for the fact that his public design work, where he discusses...

Yeah, someone can be revolutionary (as in, upending or transforming their field) without being a revolutionary. I think Baker is a...

For me the practical elements are surprisingly similar to the way I ran 4e other than that I didn't have rolls with fear and that 4e...

This matches my experience as well; I get far more engaged players when I even run Daggerheart and let them create their own cultures...