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I applaud 5.24E as I think it’s good enough and I’m tired of the hard breaks in D&D. Perfect! Let others reinvent the wheel.

I think Ender's Game is a really good book and interesting story. I like its prescience about influencers manipulating public opinion...

I would like to see a 6e but I don’t expect it for quite a long time.

I think that’s because the flaws of previous systems were much more glaring after a few years of play and it created a rebound effect...

e.g. I recently had the experience of taking a brand-new-to-roleplaying player into my 5th ed D&D campaign last year, creating a...

While the reasons you didn't like it might very well have stayed true other wise... yes. You got handed 2 classes that I would NEVER...

I just completed the 1-20 Blood Lords AP as an investigator. It worked extremely well.

Minus the "elderly men should totally have lots of sex with young women left, right and center" stuff, I assume.

It was pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain ...

Karaoke night

Enders game is just recycled Heinlein.

What is or is not a railroad doesn't change with preferred playstyle. @pemerton may feel more constrained by a traditional playstyle...

Out of respect I'll leave out of the other thread how absolutely cathartic and affirming it has been for the last two-three days of...

I do like the suggestion upthread that the number of classes should be reduced and they could use "talent trees" rather than subclasses...

I find this to be not positive while also being not true. I and everyone who participated in the playtest ran 2024 D&D rules with 2014...