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4e fighters. They have a clear focus about what they do, they're good at that thing, they have interesting decisions to make about how...

Instead of changing feats or sticking with an unfun RAW version, have you considered just using the version that you all like and...

Why should I care what some random website says? I'm talking about an actual thing invented by actual game designers and incorporated...

Agreed. They should have had it as only ever a GM-assigned modifier to the circumstances of that roll. That is to say, no published...

Although 2014 also featured Monte Cook's freshly invented idea of passive perception ;)

And the former was rampantly overused. Weapon of first resort when it was designed as a weapon of last resort.

2014's main advances AFAIR were advantage/disadvantage and the pseudo-narrative background traits, the latter of which they got rid of.

Is that it, no other good ones?!

No, I think it's a good point. Most social situations or exploration scenes aren't run in an initiative sequence. Personally when I GM...

So, let's say I write an RPG in my spare time and it's perfect. Everyone that reads it wants to play it and everyone that plays it stops...

To me a successful RPG is one that is being played, or has influenced other games/players to the extent that some part of it lives on in...

And any metric of 'successful TV programmes' that didn't include at least the first two would be a faulty metric. (I'm not American...

+1 Not only that, they named a bunch of stuff that didn't have names and those names became canon.

West End Games had the Star Wars line from 1987 through 1999, during which they produced two different editions of the game (three if...

I love Grant Howitt's one-page RPGs, which you can find on Bluesky, on his Patreon, or buy collections of from the Rowan, Rook and...