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I'm learning the system now and my plan is to run it instead of 5.5E which I am thoroughly burned out on. So far I am liking what...

My problem is more conceptual, since I often have players miss due to tests or family drama.

I haven't backed anywhere near as many, but also had two that never delivered and I kind of just forgot ever existed. I will say with...

The first Kickstarter I backed was Timothy Brown's "Dragon Kings" in 2014. Since then I've backed 90-someting more. Out of all of...

We did have a weirdly good time with the bizarre Pokemon rip-off survival-crafter Palworld, I think in part because you can automate a...

Yeah. I want games to let us turn dials on things like survival elements, rather than bundling everything into specific difficulty levels.

Yeah, narrow level slices for campaigns can make them feel pretty consistent. I like 4-8. If there are lots of things to do, you can...

All that we're looking at here are setting-specific rules. I don't know how I can make that any clearer. That's what campaign frames...

Yeah if it's basically Heroic Fantasy, 5E is probably going to align pretty well. In fact, the biggest bar with 5E will always be the...

For clarity, I was talking specifically about making 5E a science fantasy game. I made no claims regarding changing the actual gameplay...

Valheim on a dedicated private server is close.

Valheim was a game I bought day 1 because I thought it was definitely checking a lot of these boxes, and it is pretty good, but it's so...

Sorry, but this is absolutely false, and it doesn't like you're genuinely "trying to understand", it sounds like cheap whataboutism for...

No. You don't have to do any of that. Call crossbows "guns" and rename Arcana "Tech" and you are literally halfway there.

Making changes is not a binary thing, with the type and degree of change required making a big difference in how good a fit or otherwise...