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Probably the easiest option is the Fell Flight warlock invocation.

That's exactly the abdication of design I was talking about though! "Fun" is complicated and subjective of course, but ultimately it's...

No, that's exactly the transference that's being pointed out. You gave the player a problem to solve and tools to solve it, if the...

Earliest attribution (in the usual slightly different form) seems to be Soren Johnson, a different designer working on Civilization. Sid...

So this is sort of true, but the phrasing puts the blame on the players whereas I don't think it is their fault. What is going on is...

Also, I don’t know what you guys did in closed testing, but during the open playtest you got a lot of your feedback from people playing...

Trying to remove draw variability is a terrible decision, because uncertainty of outcome is an essential quality of what makes an...

I think that's a little rose tinted. That, and it's only a problem that gets worse with time.

It's a pipe dream. The razors edge you need to tread with each new release gets tighter and tighter, until something has to give. You...

Oh I think it's both. Nothing that's been said about loot boxes is not at least as true about booster packs, and the secondary "market"...

I don't think we can meaningfully proceed without a clearer shared definition of "role-playing."

I realize this is heresy, but maybe that's less a modern design decision and more an inevitable implication of the whole structure of...

The full take is a lot more nuanced. Specifically: The problem isn't that control spells ruin 5e, it's that they specifically ruin...

Fantasy Craft had a base playable dragon species and the Lancer class, that specialized in riding. You could easily pair up two PCs to...

Hold up, that seems like a substitution. The engine that makes Diplomacy work is a combination of negotiation and defection; you offer...