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But the way hitting things with metal cutty things work in OD&D and AD&D are not "realistic", they are simulating a particular kind of...

I did not say Gygqx particularly succeeded, but hey, it was a first try., let's give the guy a break. Yes, he got the hit points...

Given that @Neonchameleon liked my posts, I am confident I understood their point.

The venue and shared experience of Dragon Magazine is gone, and I miss it. But also a lot of the gates between creatives and getting...

To be honest, I saw that as a bit of a mksstatementof the thesis, because classic D&D is focused on narrative genre emulation...of...

I think there is something to that: Cosmere in particular is very familiar in terms of the player side process, but the structure...

Those players are not only a very large pool of potential customers, many of them have been playing 5E long enough to be looking for...

That is clearly what @Neonchameleon was talking about: OD&D and AD&D were designed to emulate specific genre tropes.

As someone who has had to do written customer support for customers with names that I had zero cultural context to even make a guess at...

Gendered pronouns are pretty much obsolete, when so much communication is digital, and there is, theoretically, no differentiation...

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

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...

That is an interesting feature of the recent batch of big games (maybe not Draw Steel!, not very familiar with it) is that they are...

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...

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...