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There's got to me some axiom stating every conversation about TTRPGs in general will eventually lead to Dungeons & Dragons. I thought...

It's because that's not playing against the system. The personal challenge isn't "can I play a suboptimal halfling barbarian", but "how...

Dwarf sorcerers weren't a thing when these ideas were developed.

The Bullroarer story may very well be apocryphal in-setting. And part of the evidence for his prodigious physicality was Bullroarer's...

I still grimace when I remember the two players who, after being told that our next campaign was going to be Ravenloft-style gothic...

The fact that some differences exist does not imply adding more differences is not an issue.

That implies that PCs are special and should be treated differently in the rules from other members of their species; in effect,it is a...

I do think far fewer actual players really care about the morality of racial ASIs in RPGs than the internet would have us believe.

It doesn't seem like much of an extrapolation at all when people unironically posit that a -2 penalty to one ability score is "shutting...

When someone states their opinion of what's "bad" as if it were objectively true, and goes on to state that that their beliefs have been...

I didn't say it ought to be an official rule. I've already said I think it shouldn't be. But there are tradeoffs.

In that case you know that the limit is not imposed by the world, so the act of playing against type loses its salience.

Not directly commenting on the biological determinism in RPGs, but in terms of mechanical limits: for a lot of us, working...

No, it's not. There are absolutely some ideas that can't be executed under a given framework of rules, and other ideas that can be...