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It is a very similar product, not radically different, per Steve.

Both are considered valuable assets in their industries, so not as trivial as you make them out to be. But I get it (y)

It's amazing watching people defend power creep as not being there after wotc themselves talked up power creep as a deliberate and...

The problem is obvious... Look at the specifics. Wotc was talking up PC power creep. It doesn't matter if monsters are strong enough...

The "balance" is in how the GM designs the actual campaign, so that each PC (regardless of power level) has some impact - not in every...

Bookscan is just numbers and ICv2 just reports on those numbers. Can't refute numbers without alternative numbers - it isn't enough to...

Oh it's an issue, whether you understand it or not https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerCreep And I just posted a thread...

Sure there is: ICv2 and Bookscan. Most people that have access and study the numbers know the reality of things ;)

Depends on the system. There's been a wave of Metacurrency (Hero Points, Bennies, Inspiration) games that have given PCs the advantage...

Not using the example I provided (a 1HD commoner = 1-8 HP getting stabbed 10-30 times = an average of 40 points of damage = 20 stabs x 2...

But 1HD commoners survive deadly attacks all the time. You can waste a day watching and reading accounts of survivors who were stabbed...

Except 5e started with: less than ten races and now it's over forty less than fifteen backgrounds and now it's over fifty less than...

One thing that might doom it. Once the suger rush wears off the amount of piwercreep makes DMs job harder. If people don't want to...

Bespoke.

"Agency" or "Railroad" = 90 page EN thread.