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Out of curiosity, what aspects of 5e do you prefer? Is it the more robust ecosystem? More straightforward adjudication? Grid combat? Etc?

I'm glad I bought a copy when I saw it on shelves at my FLGS back in the fall. I don't prefer it to 5E D&D, but I do like it!

I enjoy DH’s exception based design, even if you need to kinda tell the player what it means in the moment. It lets you stay fiction -...

I thought the same thing, especially when the situation the GM is describing, the setting backstory, and the actions the players decide...

Actually good (interesting) Devil's Bargains are often outside the scope of the score, ideally wrapping in factions or Rivals/Allies and...

A further complication: a lot of RPG rulebooks don't really spell all of this out in detail. They leave it as an exercise for the...

A great many people have difficulty switching between different systems of resolution. For instance: You want to escape the guards and...

I’m way to in the moment and processing a ton of mental stuff when I GM to really keep tabs of how everything is coming together (it’s a...

I was struck by this post. There can't be a RPG without "fiction": shared imagination is core to RPGing. Funny hats, voices and other...

I'm looking at this and this from the SRD: The Players Each player creates a character and works with the other players to create the...

Spurred on by a thread Reynard made about Red Hand of Doom, and having wanted to run the module since I saw Matt Colville's vid about it...

Yeah, I do like how in a PBTA you have explicit "moves with a ranged weapon" type thing and so you can just stack on "when you do that...

Yes, these are all feasible, but it still makes all these powers look clunkier and wordier. To compare it to MTG, the other card based...