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I imagine what they resent is the constant insertion of those opinions. Imagine if I were to post 'I don't like 5e' multiple times in...

I'm not speaking solely about narrative games. I mentioned 5e D&D and OSR games. Please stop making everything about your gripe against...

No you don't need all the prep. It's just useful. If you look at actors preparing for a role in a TV series they don't get all (or even...

I've got a view on this: it's analytical and genealogical. Classic D&D is, at its core, a game of puzzle-solving. At the start of the...

I agree that this is possible, and I think Rolemaster's implementation is basically this. However, no edition or variation of D&D has...

Here are contemporary trends that I see in terms of modern approaches to TTRPG mechanics: Fiction First Gaming: this was something of a...

I'm sorry, but this is why the 'dead horse' of hit points keeps being brought up. Because the assertion that the rules of D&D serve only...

In a decade of playing 5E I've literally never had a combat go that fast.

The thing about hit points is that getting hit by something sharp or heavy moving fast is, in most ttrpg settings, the single most...

That's because it was designed as a dungeon crawler. Because it had to cover that aspect of play that people would certainly use. That...

There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...

No, this is bad design. Why wouldn't you need combat to be balanced? That doesn't make any sense. How many of the fights in LotR were...

Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...

Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...