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To me there's complexity of inputs and complexity of outputs. D&D 3.X maximises the complexity of inputs. You've 32 skills plus four...

Here's a character sheet from Cthulhu Dark: Name: Jack Occupation: Longshoreman I GMed a session of Cthulhu Dark where someone played...

Let me quibble a bit (although I actually more agree with you on this topic.) Games with detailed, exception-based rules (I'm thinking...

I think you're misreading my post. I'm saying the rules exist to check "narrative contrivance". Transferring authority to the setting...

Yeah, I see this kind of comment fairly frequently, and I know I’ve seen you say it plenty of times. To me, it makes about as much sense...

Why do people who want to stick with the old edition need to buy the new edition? What's the point of a new edition other than to do new...

I only like chocolate ice cream, every meal I eat is chocolate ice cream, anyone that ever eats any other kind of food is morally...

I've always found it weird that people who enjoyed aspects of AD&D/3E D&D but didn't enjoy 4e D&D regard themselves as having been...

Ugh having to imagine all those things sounds positively exhausting!!!!

I had a lot of fun with 4e. For most of it I played a fighter with Come and Get It, which I thought was a fantastic power both...

If we're staying in the fictional frame and not referencing the mechanics, one of two things is happening. 1) Nothing that has stakes...

'No, no, all the edition changes that sidelined other people's playstyles were fine, it's only the one that sidelined my playstyle that...

There's a whole lot of difference between "you can describe what this magic spell looks like however you want, the special effects don't...

The idea that what we're calling the fiction is 'just flavour' is probably a core problem in how different people see what playing an...

And we're back at this again. My very last response on it: We simply do not engage mechanics first at my table. We take fiction...