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Sure, you could make a game where the skill values overpower the RNG in most cases. Just taking some numbers off the top of my head, you could have a system where a novice has a skill value of like 10, a master has 50, and you roll d10+skill to see if you succeed. Maybe even an exploding d10 to...

An issue with skills in many RPGs is that they rely too much on random chance. Linear systems feel particularly prone to this, but other types of systems can also have that problem. Basically, in real life most people have a number of things they can do reliably. There are also a number of...

"But wherever there is evil, whenever an innocent would suffer, there would be Hercules!" I knew that Sorbo guy was up to no good...

IMO, roll-under systems work best when dealing with relatively grounded characters. Characters can improve, but they'll always be fundamentally normal humans. No matter how good a boxer you are, you're not going to win a fistfight against a 20' tall giant. If the game does want an experienced...

This is what I disagree with. I think the "what" is more important than the "how". A frontliner can fight using pure martial badassery, or by being divinely empowered, or by using arcane powers learned through study. They still fulfill the role of "frontliner", but the play experience will...

PF2 has more up-front complexity, because you need to familiarize yourself with a whole bunch of keywords and choose feats and sub-classes and such. But once you get past that hurdle, it gets a fair bit easier because everything works off the same principles. You also have various character...

So far, so good. But the problem is that you see niches as a single thing each class does. This leads to rather stale classes and characters. You want a good healer in your party? Well, then you need a cleric and that means a bunch of religious baggage as well. If you instead approach class...

This is a bit more concise than Interstellar:

The thing is that it is very... unapologetic, I guess. It is what it is, and it is a LOT of it. If that's your thing, you'll love it. If it's not, you'll hate it.

That's a strange way of spelling "amazing". I hope they'll do a theatrical release over here as well, because I'd love to see the Fifth Element in the theatre.

They should release it along with some other movie and sell dual tickets as

I'd call the dragonmarked houses megacorp-adjacent, but not fully megacorpy. They lack quite a few things needed to wield megacorp-level power: Can't own land. Their enclaves are rented. Other than Deneith, can't field military forces. Sticks to their lane. You want to buy manufactured goods...

The one actual lawyer I recall weighing in, Devin "Legal Eagle" Stone, said he believed Wizards likely had the right to pull the OGL. The main reason was that it used the word "perpetual" rather than "irrevocable", and "perpetual" generally means "until further notice" rather than "forever" in...

I believe the Tyr Arena can fit the city's entire population because the whole point of building it was to drain the city's population of its life energy in order to fuel Kalak's transformation into a full-strength dragon.

I'm not sure 5e has the mechanical depth to support focused books like this over more general Xanathar's-style books that have a bit of this and a bit of that. But ignoring that and assuming this is a thing you want to do in general, I would recommend not starting with the fighter. I'm fairly...