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1st edition for me.

More a case of they are going to be wrong for 75%* of players no matter how they do it. *Not that many really, there are a great many...

I liked baby purple dragon rider. A heckuva lot more than the banneret. And maybe if the Lore Police hadn't nuked the survey, we'd have...

It uses spell slots, which means it can acquire spells that are not on the class list, so even if there aren't any, it still needs to be...

I don't think any of the Discworld books are bad -- I'm close to finishing my second complete read-through of the series -- but they...

It seems like a very complicated way of going about things. If you can't do basic arithmetic then a pocket calculator can do it much...

For the D&D community, psionics is like 4 very different and distinct things. So WOTC offshore the more complex ideas to 3PPs.

Let me be more clear: it needs a science fiction setting, not yet another space fantasy setting.

I am anti-respawn myself, only because I like feeling like I accomplished something.

My problem with D&D isn't that it's class based; it's how strongly level based it is. A class is basically a partially complete...

Laws of the world apply to everyone.

And you are completely wrong. Classes and levels do not exist apart from for PCs - that's why NPCs don't have them.

Under archefey patron: Under celestial patron:

This is a distinction I don't think is appreciated enough; the one between rules as physics engine and rules as user interface to a...

Which is directly contradicted by stuff elsewhere in the fiction, even down to the idea that the pact is with a single entity at all...