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I've seen a couple RPG supervillains using that name.

Nothing breaks, especially in MotW which (like a lot of PbtA games) has starting characters that are pretty professional and skilled...

Impossible Magic is gonna be very cool, it’s probably the biggest thing that still needed updating for Remastered 2E.

On the other hand, species decoupled from ASI has opened up people to try species they wouldn't have tried before. Especially for combos...

Balance as far as I am concerned only matters from one character to the next at the same table. The two barbarians have dramatically...

Professionals obviously should take this into account. Someone publishing something on DTRPG as a hobby can possibly afford to ignore...

Well, to be really blunt, even if you're writing rules for your own purposes, a set of rules that supports what you want but makes...

I have to point out that the three one-man band authors I'm familiar with (the authors, respectively, of Fragged Empire, Wicked Pacts...

That was probably a latter day rolling in some beast master types in with the class. It wasn't in the early version.

Bluntly, most of them? Look at Fenris' post upthread if you want just an example in this thread. I've got at least a dozen I could...

No, but not all the characters in that cultural matrix had those exact traits. I'm at least slightly familiar with that character's...

So I publish RPG material, and frankly I can't imagine doing so without taking this into account. How popular, for which we might read...

It wasn't that they could do it themselves, but that there'd potentially be other PCs in play who'd consider it worth their trouble...

But of course I am talking about in the context of people publishing RPG products. You may not think that's a factor they should be...

I still stand by the opinion the original Greyhawk paladin was extremely heavily modelled on one particular character from one specific...