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I've just binged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and let's just say there were a lot of behaviour patterns I recognised.

5e essentially is a superhero game, imo.

Yes. Heaven forbid we try to expand that. "Sorry guys, we made a supernatural warrior class already and we can't make another ever...

An addendum to the above post: upthread someone talked about sim vs "gamism" in the context of classic Gygaxian D&D. For the game to...

@mamba, I've quoted a series of your posts. And am trying to work out what your position is. At some points, you seemed to be talking...

As soon as I feel like I'm playing a game, or reading a book, or watching a TV show simply because I've already started and I might as...

From tabletop RPGs, I mean. I have been gaming essentially continuously for 40 years. I have and am writing freelance for the industry...

And it does work really well when that rhythm is followed, in my experience. And it works fine when it is not followed, it just makes...

Hey, my old thread :D That excel sheet is the basis for my homebrew monster difficulty ^^. I wanted to say, what Mearls says seems to...

I've run multiple campaigns of 60+ sessions: early B/X and AD&D campaigns, and then two in Rolemaster, of around 300+ sessions each...

Yep. The engine or game style I would want for a 1-2 shot, a game of a dozen sessions, a game of 60ish sessions, and a functionally...

Opened ended includes 6 sessions as well as 60. I think the idea was that the session would go longer than average which is probably...

Yea, I’m moved away from that handwavey approach. “Class” is a transformation of the soul. The character is aware of it, and the...

I would agree with this. I've long been strongly against the idea of class as "vocation" that thousands of NPCs within a setting just...

Sure. I don't mind part of the process being an asymmetrical board game. If anything, "whole lot of talking and exploration, and half...