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I guess there has to be some combination of good writing and timeless subject matter. That the work contains insights, whether...

EDIT FOR CLARITY: I mean to ask you, personally, what makes something a classic TO YOU. I am not asking you what you think makes...

Fun idea. It seems to me it would increase the power level of the PCs in a significant way. And especially would interact with the push...

What it says on the tin. The inherent issue I see with dicerolls is that they generate randomness after the fact, and, combined with...

Sounds like Ivan Karamazov.

I think it's classic Hipster behavior. "D&D was cool before they sold out, now I only play (insert name here). Oh, you've never heard...

I don't know that I hate them, but I do think that after 4 years of play, the lack of hit points in WEG D6 is starting to ruin the game...

I fully agree. In all the games I have played nothing works as well as the D&D hit point system. Easy to keep track off and doesn't hurt...

So after a few years of running a lot of games with different variations of wounds system, I can say only one thing: I hate them...

That will break down the minute they see It's not the books they think. Trust me that would have been my original thing; I wanted to run...

Don’t worry about the “must be the same level” complaints online. If your players are having fun, it’s fine. For what it’s worth, in...

I'm an old school gamer myself (started with 1E back in 1979), but I think that the old school system worked as well as it did because...

Given that you cannot expect everyone to come back every week, even the diehards, since life happens, I would actually focus on small...

You can absolutely have varying levels in a party in 5e- it actually works kind of better thanks to the flat math. I've done it with...