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Yep. The sniper build wasn't nearly as fun in ME2 and 3 as it was in 1, what with the very game-y level design of the newer games, so...

I think its more a case of visibility. Its hard for me to precisely explain what I mean here, but I can't help but think there were lot...

I look at it more from a broadly healthy perspective. That WotC and 5E 3PP are making money is great for them, but 5E is effectively...

This is true with a lot of games, honestly; almost any game, generic or not, carries certain kinds of fundamental design assumptions...

Still a little coarse for my taste; probably because I come from a Hero background, I'd prefer at least three buckets, not two.

The only things that pop into my head after hitting the end of this list are a little weirder/off the path, like Swordbearer or Bushido.

Also be aware that if you go for the Mongoose Runequest interim editions (which have SRDs) know that lorewise it is set in a prehistory...

A huge amount of work has been done to create templates for many major genres or types of games. There are still decision to be made but...

Mutants and Masterminds has had it as an effective option (in terms of just allowing people to do character modelling and ignore the...

Just be aware that while technically none of the direct RQ derivatives are lightweight, you'd likely find Mythras the heavies of the...

It never bothered me for whatever reason. I'm on his Patreon even though I don't watch him as much as I used to (some stuff I don't...

There are always going to be people who, even if they somewhat care about representation, are playing from a heavily gamist posture on...

Just a side comment on one branch of this discussion, since I've seen it come up in other discussion: Disadvantages that work by...

Yup. A lot of would-be gaming pundits taken it as given that 1) a huge fraction of roleplaying books are made by soulless hacks just...

It is more complicated than that - folks usually don't have a problem with their own flags waving. Indeed, they don't generally even...