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Depends whether the priority is efficiency in the fiction or efficiency at the table. How many times, for example, have you and your SO...

This is not accurate. Elves and humans produced the first half-elven offspring, who felt they didn't fit in so formed their own...

I would rather see a setting search. WotC's design team does not hold any special monopoly on creativity, as we can plainly see from the...

Something in the style of 3e's Unearthed Arcana- a book of alternate rules, allowing for a lot more customization and fine tuning of the...

Eberron can better be describe not as "magic and science collide" but as "magic explored through the use of the scientific method and...

And based on where we fall on that preference scale, we should avoid playing at the same table.

Great! I can totally see this working for worlds where those assumptions hold true.

Doesn't that feel artificial? I'm not sure what element of the game world are you trying to bring to the forefront?

Sure, but the player will have to make occasional saving throws to avoid his pants being set aflame.

Cool. I had a player who wanted to play a necromancer whose goal was to found a zombie civilization (for the good the all zombie men...

My concern is simulation, so I want a necromancer that does the things necromancers are traditionally capable of, modeled as per setting...

I was thinking in the homebuilding of a world that is a mixture of Hyborian age(Conan the barbarian) and postapocaliptse (Mad Max). Yes...

I didn't say 4e wasn't good at combat. But if we want a combat exclusive thing we have prior to 4e the entire Fighter or Fighting Man...

A lot of the reworks seems generally less interesting then the originals. Notably, there's a big lack of abilities which have Ribbon...

I'm disappointed. Again, every subclass is solely oriented toward combat, generally ignoring the other three pillars of play. 2014...