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To thread the needle ... 4e has one of the best combat engines in any edition of DnD. It's where the game shines, IMO. But to say it...

They just put out the "Release Candidate" main book on the 24th. Rules-wise, it's crunchy so I can't do a detailed comparison with...

I played a one-shot with them this past weekend. They are a bit crunchy, as advertised.

Not going to show mine. 😂 They're scribbled notes by hand in a notebook or fancy leather journal I got for Christmas. They are also...

If you changed that to ‘aspects’ it would be equally useful, however. I tend to agree that Experiences are basically a subset of...

I think it's a bit higher than you're suggesting. D&D streams/podcasts, including ones which involved actual D&D designers playing...

I think it is a little presumptuous for folks to assune/decide that this current stream is explicitly intended to be a "teaching...

It literally is not. First off, CharOp in DH is limited in much the same way 5E is - we're talking PCs basically between 7/10 and 10/10...

That implies Character optimization and spotlight hogging are the same thing, which I don't agree with. In any event, theory crafting...

CharOp is not necessarily about spotlight hogging. It's about seeing what works and exploring the limits of the system, often to build...

@overgeeked Your definition of "optimizer" from the previous thread is both ridiculous and insulting, frankly. You're straight-up...

You're just flatly wrong. I've played 35 years of TTRPGs and people who optimize but don't hog the spotlight are ten-a-penny. You might...

I personally am a optimizer and power player. Although I don't use exploits and interactions, that were clearly not RAI. But I like to...

Sorry but it's just not accurate to claim PCs have "very little control" over Stress. They don't have total control but it's basically a...

Well, sure. But it's also modeling a group that's still learning its way around a new game system, which is how a lot more games are...