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The only thing I dislike about it is that it's likely to eat up huge amounts of page-count, which could otherwise be put to productive...

I'm not the person who articulated this as a hard binary, that folks who want the thing I like should be exclusively served by the...

"Tiny minority of players" meant "players that spend more time reading the D&D rulebooks than playing the game." Also, I don't think...

Keywords are a helpful tool, I admit I default to them mentally pretty hard due to my education/career. There is also no reason that...

You say "rarely relevant", but one of the few things even most haters of 4e liked about it was the Bloodied condition because it was...

While I agree with having a rules cyclopedia, and never opened a PHB once I had the essentials one in 4e, the 2024 core books do a...

The eternal tension between two goals that do not always point in the same direction: 1. The core books must teach legitimately...

You are right with that, but isnt that the point of rules? To not get lost in immersive text about a breathing fantasy world, but...

It says something of the design philosophy of 2024 5e that the most successful edition of 5e ever made use of natural language...but the...

I am so happy with the reduction of "natural language" in Revised 5E. It drove me crazy whenever a DM would ask what a player's spell...

As a college professor, my experience tells me that you have to handhold people to the nth degree, thus 5R and its use of keyterms is...

Except that doing that is almost 100% guaranteed to not happen--and, worse, two people can look at the same natural-language terms and...

"Natural English" leads to far more confusion and ambiguity. I greater prefer the emphasis on Keywords for clarity. Your argument...

I quite like keywords, so if they're actually using them well, that sounds good to me. I'm not at all confident that they are using...

It doesnt read well, until you need clarity on how to adjudicate it at the table.