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The Pathfinder version took this approach.

Best way to learn is by playing. When it comes to kids, learning with other kids the same age. If there is anyone older present, they...

Honestly it's probably easiest for them to learn by playing and seeing other GMs do it, then getting some direct advice from them to...

Why so? The rules say goliaths can develop 5 different abilities, they don’t say there are 5 different types of Goliath. There is no...

I’ve been playing Lost Epoch, after it was mentioned here. I’m like “I like complex strategy and deep character driven stories and...

Why not, like do it yourself? That’s the best way to fit them into your world. Or if someone wants to play one, let them do it (then...

I'm inclined to agree with this. The staff at WotC have changed, and they seem to have gone back to the splatbook mentality. And new...

Ok, as you probaly know, I am not the biggest warlord fan, but hear me out. If the psion gets through playtest, I see a real chance to...

I think WotC would agree with it being confining (their original attempt was with a point based system after all). But we know that...

Sufficiently fictional abilities are indistinguishable from magic.

It did, they were part of the original 1st edition psionics rules. But there were a lot more of them, something like 20 I think. Which...

It cropped up in BG3, so I would say it’s still current, even if the effects are downplayed. I would think that for none FR settings...

Yeah, I always felt that the point of psionics in Dark Sun was to serve as mutant powers (without actually copy/pasting from Gamma...

never liked psionics in Dark Sun, so you have a light and a dark side of ‘the force’ in the preserver and defiler, and then you decide...

Definitely Lego Sandbox. I see a sandbox as a collection of scattered elements: locations, NPCs, creatures, objects and stories...