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I want to highlight a few passages which I think will be important later (it will be important when we get to checks). I think we're...

But I think rife with NSR ones (which is what, all the core OSR principles but distancing themselves from the reactionaries + changing...

To me, it seems you misunderstand me. Again, not contradictory with what I was saying at all, and in fact it's what I had in mind for...

FWIW, I don't think that contemporary approaches to TTRPGs are necessarily opposed to simulationism as was earlier discussed. However, I...

I think this issue of NPC and PC build and stats is an interesting one. D&D did not try to establish any sort of parallel or...

Wizards know exactly how they regain spells, as the rules explicitly state (using the Basic Rules on Beyond); You can regain some of...

A wilderness or city day that involves a rest at lunch/tea/dinner/siesta/etc makes narrative sense. I try to have two difficult...

I think there’s a lot of unexamined assumption in that framing. You’re describing an idealized table of close friends who all share...

If that is the case, then why do we need to stick to a system, despite its flaws? Why wouldn't we just go freeform, and ditch the...

But this is precisely my problem with much of this stuff. "The concept is so good! We should keep playing it!" Concept is easy. Anyone...

I’m counting both under the 5e umbrella. My understanding was that TSR editions had no real notion of game balance, at least in the...

I think this is where we probably once again need to note that the set of gameplay principles and mechanics that have grown up over the...

I'm not sure it "fixes this issue" but it does have a split between powers always available, those that are x/rest, x/long rest...

Can you share some examples? Genuinely curious here, I'm not super familiar with the games in the survival horror etc side of the hobby.