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Oh, right in the nostalgia. Flat-footed and touch ACs, that big list of skills...

yes, even Micah does not have 10 million NPCs going about their daily lives in detail when ‘no one is looking’ and the characters are in...

Yeah, its pretty much "Let's look at all the D&D tropes and say "Okay, all these things have to at least some degree an in-world...

Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...

Fantasy Craft was my D&D 3.5 heartbreaker. I have the books sitting on my shelves, I've spent hours reading them and gushing over them...

I'm discovering 5.5E is about as compatible with 5E as 3.5E was about as compatible with 3E. Which is to say DM can handwave the...

As soon as they began changing things in clearly non-errata ways, they were into new edition territory. It was all just a question of...

More like the "Dont name it something other than 5e because people won't believe it's backwards compatible and not buy the new books"...

I actually think "meta" is sort of the wrong label for that reason. We tend to wrap up causality and character/player transparency into...

The issue is always causality and character decision making. Is the player decision to deploy the resource directly analogous to the...

Which would cement it even more solidly in the camp of metacurrency, since the character was not stressed at all between the point where...

And, of course, context. When you're trying for some genres and sorts fo settings, you don't so much want a sense of realism as the...

Sure, you could make a game where the skill values overpower the RNG in most cases. Just taking some numbers off the top of my head, you...

So how did that story end exactly? Remind me. No, it's absolutely an offense and disrespect to basically all creative professions...

The trap is all around us, Bill.