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And I would add to this, analysed/explained quite obscurely in many RPG discussions.

I think that D&D clerics and paladins, as originally presented, are two mechanical variants on the one idea: a heavily armed and...

I think it's clearly framing - I mean, there's no magic in the label, but any RPG needs a process for establishing what is it that we...

Modern is not necessarily better. Modern is not necessarily better. Modern is not necessarily better. So we are reminded ad nauseum...

Right. Conan doesn't resort to combat as a last resort. Having fighter PCs begin at 1st level, rather than as Heroes, is already a...

Something we may want to examine is if that last point, which is certainly true of classic D&D and well as much OSR play is still...

Just lack of complexity. For instance, Non-Modern: Modern:

I think I'm not as sure that the original game pieces needed a particular trope or exemplar to work. Heroes and Superheroes can be...

To follow on a bit from my post just upthread, I don't think that these are "siloed roles". I mean, Conan is a ranger (say, Beyond the...

Upthread, I posted quite a bit about some sorts of approaches to the setting-oriented RPGing that you describe: These posts advance...

So what you are saying is that there was a sliver of time in between the brown box of 1974 and the PHB of 1978 where the presence of a...

And in case you have forgotten all weapons in oD&D did 1d6 damage. So they may have had 7hp but your average second level cleric...

The question might be are you just giving up complexity and time expenditure! And part of establishing that is really understanding...

I don't think that's an obvious claim at all. I might buy this in some ways in terms of characters, but it doesn't obviously apply to...

Isn't it though? If I want to get to the same result, theme and intentionality-wise, making a simpler, faster and intuitive calculation...