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So for my own example: I was running an online game in 2020 called "Quarantine Quest." At around lvl 6-7, I decided to suspend further...

The DM's judgement is the greatest load bearer in all of TTRPGs. Dozens of games would break down without it.

With great, great care. And understanding that I'm probably reworking a game system in very fundamental way and potentially...

Man, using the terms 'load bearing' and 'encumbrance' in your post are going to cause a lot of confusion. Good luck!

I did this for WoD d10 pool system, specifically for Vampire the Requiem hack i have (link) The idea was that outside of combat...

That would be a very nifty way to gate reactions!

A rules change you could make to address this would be to combine the bonus and reaction actions. Give the PC only one per round...

Quite the opposite - in a modular system, the "load bearing" bits are the framework and interfaces that allow the modules to interact...

Upon reflection, I did wish to offer another take. The thread title does ask if exclusivity is bad, but a better framing might be does...

More modular game design I would expect is more flexible and as a result may not even have any real load bearing rules.

(Encumbrance as an example reinforces my mistake that this thread is about load-bearing characters.) My game of choice, Modos 2...

So I was inspired by a comment I made on another thread which has me curious. Very broadly, any given rule in an RPG is either...

For sure. Worst case scenario, there isn't any game actually called Dungeons and Dragons actively publishing official first-party...

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English Prof here. Yes. All of it is. All of it speaks about who we are, what we care about, what we value. You learn about past...