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It is an issue! I hate it! Edit: And also, there aren’t thousands of PCs. There are maybe 6?

I also think that the patron should have a lot of leverage in the narrative. Where we probably disagree is that I don’t think that a...

Because they're not player characters; They're not meant to be used by a human that controls only one being(maybe 2-3 if they have...

What part of my posts gives any indication I care about things like RAW or previous lore? I couldn’t care less about what’s correct. I...

You say this like it's a bad thing.

Exactly! People who are playing the game need additional things at the game level of play. Be it balance against other classes...

Classes and levels are both player-facing constructs for creating player characters that are "balanced" against each other. We know...

Sounds like a bad case of main character syndrome!

Yes, but that's because the metagame constructs of class and level aren't actually laws binding the fiction. They're tools to provide a...

It depends greatly on the goals the players come up with. If a PCs goal is to explore the world, then exploring the world is not only...

There's also the "negative reinforcement", which I think has at least two aspects to it: (1) For the player, if you don't earn artha -...

Player driven sandbox. BW enforces said playstyle by having the primary focus of play being PC Goal Completion, as opposed to the more...

From upthread:

Design that isn't opinionated has no value

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